Join with Wild Ones-Door Peninsula and Crossroads for our annual monarch tagging program. Starting in the lecture hall, Naturalist Karen Newbern will describes the monarch life cycle and migration patterns. Then (hopefully, migration tends to be weather driven) participants are invited to help capture and tag these stunning orange and black butterflies which are on […]
Nature is Full of Hexagons
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Looking at the array of programs at Crossroads this week, we begin to see patterns…repeating patterns… of hexagons. If we are “looking,” we are seeing thanks to hexagons because the photoreceptors (light-catching cones in the back of our eyeballs) form closely packed hexagon-shaped patterns. And […]
Resources for Landowners Series at Crossroads
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Crossroads is excited to welcome Tim Dahl and Jason Miller from Door County Soil & Water and the Door County Invasive Species Team (DCIST) on Thursday, August 8 at 5:30pm to discuss resources available to all as part of the Resources for Landowners Series. The […]
Creatures that Return Each Summer to the Door Peninsula
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Our Door County summer residents, many of whom have, over the years, become Crossroads donors and volunteers, have returned. Some have raised their children here and now are sharing Crossroads and other natural areas with children and grandchildren. Curiously, this week, each of our nature programs will focus […]
Red, White and Blue Birds
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Though the Collins Learning Center will be closed on Independence Day, our trails (like always) will be open all day, every day, so on Thursday, holiday hikers may see red, white and blue birds on each of our three Crossroads preserves. Then July 5 at 5:30 pm, […]
Dark Skies and Wildlife
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. This week at Crossroads, our public programs focus on under-appreciated, but essential components of our environment: biodiversity, fungi and dark skies. On Saturday, May 11, the Crossroads Habitat Healers will plant native tree seedlings starting at 9:00 at the Crossroads Workshop, and at the same day, the […]
Crossroads Book Club
This month we’re reading Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt. Crossroads will have a few copies of the book available to borrow if needed. Whether you’ve read the book yet or not, we would love for you to join us as we explore the stories, ideas, and concepts shared within the pages of this awesome books! […]
League of Women Voters Forum: The Big Stink – A Question of Manure
The League of Women Voters invites you to a public forum surrounding the topic of manure. Manure management is a complicated subject, especially given Door County’s Dairy fragile karst substrate and the importance of water health. We hope to make sense of the benefits and challenges of manure management through a presentation involving regulators, farmers […]
Every Day is Earth Day : Capturing the Energy of the Sun
A celebration of energy in nature featuring demonstrations, nature journaling walks, films, tree planting with The Big Plant, demonstrations, citizen science, and other family-fun activities. Free trees, free wildflowers seeds, conditions permitting, Safe Solar Viewing and Naturalist-led Sucker Run Tour. In the Collins Learning Center and grounds of Crossroads at Big Creek, 2041 Michigan, Sturgeon Bay. […]
Every Day is Earth Day
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Sturgeon Bay, Every Day is Earth Day is an annual event celebrating the people, organizations, and businesses that uphold our sustainable culture in Door County and beyond. On Sunday, April 21 from 1:00-4:00, Crossroads at Big Creek will host the third day of the four day festival. During the […]
