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  • Clouds program to be presented

    Published On: October 27th, 2021Categories: Meetings

    Life in the Clouds will be explored at the Friends of the Black River’s next public educational meeting. Jeff Boyne, a meteorologist with the La [...]

  • Mississippi Flyway migration cam is topic of October program

    Published On: September 28th, 2021Categories: Meetings

    Raptor Resource Project Director John Howe will present a program about a project to video waterfowl migration on the Mississippi River Flyway at the Wednesday, [...]

  • Turtles will be topic of March FBR meeting presentation

    Published On: February 15th, 2020Categories: Events, Meetings

    UW-Stevens Point professor Peter Zani will give a program at the March 11, 2020 Friends of the Black River meeting about the wildlife tunnel installed [...]

  • County recycling program topic of February meeting

    Published On: January 20th, 2020Categories: Events, Meetings

    Terry Schmidt, Jackson County zoning and private onsite waste disposal systems administrator, will talk about the county’s recycling program at the Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 [...]

  • Public invited to showing of One Planet film

    Published On: November 25th, 2019Categories: Events, Meetings

    The public is invited to the Friends of the Black River annual holiday movie night. This year’s film will be “One Planet.” The New Visionary [...]

  • Program about Mosser Lee’s sphagnum moss operation to be presented

    Published On: October 28th, 2019Categories: Events, Meetings

    Modern use of a primeval plant species will be the topic of a program at the Friends of the Black River’s November meeting. Growing in [...]

  • Jackson County Forest will be topic of September program

    Published On: September 1st, 2019Categories: Events, Meetings

    The history and future of the Jackson County Forest will be the topic of the program at the September Friends of the Black River meeting. [...]

  • Prairie flower walk

    Published On: July 11th, 2019Categories: Events

    The Friends of the Black River will host its annual guided prairie wildflower walk Tuesday, July 16, 2019, on land being restored to native habitat [...]

  • Program about private woodland management to be presented

    Published On: March 27th, 2019Categories: Meetings

    Ralph Heiser, chair of Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association Chippewa Valley Chapter, will present a program about the organization’s mission and the assistance it can provide [...]

  • Raising monarch butterflies is topic of March 13, 2019 program

    Published On: February 20th, 2019Categories: Meetings

    Raising monarch butterflies in the home from egg stage to adult will be the topic of the Wednesday, March 13 Friends of the River meeting. [...]

  • February 2019 meeting will feature Black River Falls dam and 2016 flood

    Published On: January 29th, 2019Categories: Events, Meetings

    The February Friends of the Black River meeting will feature Black River Falls Municipal Utilities General Manager Casey Engebretson. Engebretson will present a program about [...]

  • Bird house making is topic of January 2019 program

    Published On: December 26th, 2018Categories: Events, Meetings

    The dos and don’ts of making bird houses will the topic of the January Friends of the Black River meeting. The meeting will be held [...]

  • Driftless Region documentary will be shown at movie night

    Published On: November 20th, 2018Categories: Events, Meetings

    The Friends of the Black River invites the public to a showing of the newly released “Decoding the Driftless,” a documentary about the state’s Driftless [...]

  • Reclaiming sand mines topic of November program

    Published On: October 31st, 2018Categories: Events, Meetings

    The results of a study to reclaim sand mines and convert them to prairie habitat will be the topic of the Friends of the Black [...]

  • Insect hotels program to be presented at October meeting

    Published On: September 28th, 2018Categories: Events, Meetings

    A presentation about habitat research using “insect hotels” will be the topic of the next Friends of the Black River meeting. Dr. Ted Wilson, biology [...]

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