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This year marks our
40th Anniversary -

Please consider making a special "$40-FOR-40" donation -
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Help us give our dining hall a facelift - square by square
Please consider contributing to our ‘Dining Room Floor’ campaign. One 20” x 20” carpet tile is around $6 - if everyone who visits our dining room bought just one square, we could have this project completed in no time. Or consider buying a carton of tiles for $120. Visit our "DonateNow" link above or click here for more info

Speakers Program Now Available
Need a speaker or presentation
for your meeting? Email Kate Crowley
at crowley@audubon-center.org
for more info or to schedule
a talk for your group.

earth Click on the earth image to hear "Is That What It Will Take?" - written and performed by our own Bryan Wood

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sandstone had a very successful StepItUp event to bring attention to congress about
global warming. Follow the links to find out more.

Event Summary
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Click below to read an interesting and personal article by Mike Link, Executive Director
of the Audubon Center of the North Woods, regarding Risk and the Wilderness.
This article first appeared in Backpacker Magazine, then South West Magazine and
the edited version below will be in the Fall 2007 Friends of the BWCAW newsletter.

Risk and the Wilderness by Mike Link

"In the fields and woods more than anywhere else all things come to those
who wait,
because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later
to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we
absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school, we absorb them in the
fields and woods and on the farm. When we look upon Nature with
fondness and appreciation she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold
upon us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge
of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in
the open air than in the school-room or the laboratory."
- John Burroughs

 

 

Our Mission:
To protect, improve and promote the enjoyment of the
natural environment through formal and informal
education programs and research; to assist and encourage
environmental education programs, centers, and careers.
Our Vision:
The environment is the blackboard for the Center's educational programs; the common ground that brings us together with the natural world and people from around the globe to share our concerns for one another and the future. It is through positive and shared experience that we hope we can affect the values and actions of our people to create a world of harmonious diversity.

 

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