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Menominee Way Day

Date: 
Friday, September 16, 2022 - 10:00am - 3:30pm
Location: 
Menominee Sustainability Institute, N172 HWY 47/55, Keshena, WI

Learn Menominee Sustainable Ways that can be applied across ecosystems and cultures. Visit Sustainable Development Institute, Logging Museum, and Heritage Museum on the Menominee Reservation in Keshena, WI.

Lunch will be available for individual purchase at Farmers Market

Advance registration requested: https://esther-foxvalley.org/menomineeway

Schedule:

9:45 Arrive at College of Menominee Nation parking lot. SDI building located by parking lot.
10:00-10:50 SDI Staff presentation: Efforts in sustaining and restoring ecosystems as climate changes. 40-min presentation + 10 min Q&A
11:00-11:40 Interpreter-led walk through old-growth forest talking about sustainable forest management.
  (Menominee Forest received U.N. Award in 1995; Presidential Sustainability Award 1996; recognized by Yale University School of Forestry and worldwide for excellence in forestry management.)
11:50-12:30 Interpreter-led walk ttrough sustainably managed gardens.
12:40-1:30 Menominee Farmers Market on campus today! - Buy lunch from vendor(s)…and browse.
1:45-2:30 Logging Museum - “Learn from the Past…Plan for the Future” W3426 County VV West, Keshena (Interpreter: Jean Cox)
2:45-3:30 Historical Preservation Museum, Hwy 47, Neopit. Self-guided ttrough interpretive displays
3:30 Depart

 

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