Britt Searles welcomes students to Sandhill.

Leftfoot Lake on Spring Trip

Cailey's setting up some ice fishing gear for the crew!

A cookout and canoeing follows a Lulu Lake Work Party in October.

Wehr nature center trail maintenance volunteers.

Volunteer tour guides from the club

The Winter Trip gang takes a break to grab some food.

Members get trees festive and ready for the MACC Fund's Candy Cane Lane fundraiser.

A nice little largemouth bass from Leftfoot Lake on Spring Trip.

Land Stewardship volunteers at The Nature Conservancy property.

"They've got some nice facilities here," says Chris.

Doing a study involving predator calling near Eagle River.

Our annual community clean-up

Friends staying warm and cozy on the Spring Trip near Crivitz, WI.

Students pose for a picture in front of their display that they created about how to conserve water.

A K-5 student creates t-shirt full of animal tracks at an elementary school's High-Interest Day.

The porky is radio collared and all our data has been taken ... time to let her go into the Sandhill Wildlife Area in southern Wood County.

Gathering seed to help replant other project areas for The Nature Conservancy.

Hibby is wearing our helmet cam so everyone can see her trip down the Peshtigo River as if they were rafting too!

Michigan's upper peninsula has a college well suited for those pursuing careers in forestry and natural resources.

A brave soul enters an abandoned bear den during Spring Trip.

Time to relax as the rapids pass by ... it's our annual post-rafting picnic spot!

BB gun "horse" is a game we like to play ... just like basketball's horse, but instead of making baskets, you have to hit a designated aluminum can to score!

Taking the height of a tree using a Biltmore Stick at Trees for Tomorrow in Vilas County.

Students met with real scientists to see what studies are going on in Lake Michigan!

The Trees for Tomorrow Workshop has a ton of challenge courses for students to learn how to work together to complete tasks.

Hike through a small area of virgin pine forests that were spared by the logging company so that the owner's wife could teach Sunday School there years ago. It is now a designated State Natural Area.

Club members compete against other schools at the Point Beach Energy Center's science knowledge competition.

Students take part in setting up trail cameras at bear sites to see what comes by during the Spring Trip!

One of the games we oftentimes play on Spring trip!

DNR Wolf Biologist Dick Thiel takes club members out and follows a pack of wolves for miles, seeing many interesting behavioral indicators from track, scat, and other signs along the way.

Trapping birds and keeping data about them when re-captured the primary way to conduct studies. Chickadees and their varying amount of fat content is important to understand, as it is their primary means for surviving Wisconsin's brutal winters.

The club hits the streets with spray cans and stencils to remind citizens where the water winds up going after it reaches the storm drains - to local waterways. Don't pollute our rivers!

Activity at Trees for Tomorrow where students learn to build fires the right way!

Here, students are at the Sandhill wildlife area are trying to locate radio collared porcupines.

In the dead of night, students go deep into the woods to replenish bear bait sites ... spooky!

After a hike to Wallace Grange's historic cabin, students build a bonfire and relax.

To monitor porcupine movement, we set up trail cameras on known porcupine trails. This helps us see when and how often they are moving from their dens to feed trees and back.

Wisconsin Rapids area - nice bass from a private lake we have access to!

How old is that tree? Are they planted too close together? What years were best or worst for growth? Lots of information is shown through tree rings, and core sampling is how we can track that without cutting down trees.

A mainstay for the Great Outdoor Games, we see who's got the old school logging skills necessary for cutting through a log in record time!

Kosirs Rapid Rafts is our outfitter for this amazing trip down the Peshtigo River!

When the snow gets deep, we put on the snowshoes and start traveling in style!

We put together a team of geniuses, teach them college level oceanography, and put them up against other schools' teams in a knowledge competition.

Yummy!

Artistic students sometimes opt to create murals.

Can you light a match with a hatchet? It IS possible ... give it a try!

The Careers in Forestry and Natural Resources Workshop at Trees For Tomorrow allows students to work with real outdoor professionals.

Before becoming a wildlife research facility, the Sandhill Wildlife Area was once a game farm, where animals were trapped, shipped, and sold.

Students get to see harvesters and loaders in action, as logging practices take place.

Could they make it overnight in this shelter? Well, we don't test it that way, but we do build them with survival in mind!

Anvil Lake hike where students get one number ... a direction to make it out of the woods to the road ... they get worried sometimes, but if they trust their number and use the compass correctly, they make it out eventually!

To make it a bit more challenging, Abbey is doing some nighttime tree identification on the Trees for Tomorrow campus in Eagle River.

Club member volunteers watch as a youngster takes part in a science activity at the Schlitz Audobon Nature Center.

Plug in those coordinates and find the hidden "cache!" Technology and the outdoors ... what could be better?!

These muscular young people have just finished loading canoes onto the trailer ... grrr!

A club member tries her skills to see how many trees she'd bump into while moving around her harvester at a virtual logging site.

Our annual Christmas Party is held at Adventure Rock Climbing Gym where they lock the doors and we climb all night long through their "Rock N Lock N" program.

Folks learn how clear cutting forested areas isn't all bad, as the regrowth of aspen makes great habitat for

The Lulu Lake property of the TNC has some kayaks ... and we take them out when we can!

Eagle River wastewater treatment facility ... much smaller scale than our own, but very important in water quality.

The "Shelter" at Anvil Lake has a population of chickadees and nuthatches that have become accustom to feeding from people's hands ... very cool!

The MACC Fund's efforts to raise money for children's cancer research are assisted by volunteers who collect money and canned foods as concerned citizens pass through, checking out the Christmas lights and making donations.

CCC Spring Trip bonfire ... complete with s'mores, jokes, and stories!

The club sometimes takes a moment to beautify our school grounds after school!

Students learn hands-on the entire operational process of logging, from bidding to cutting to delivering to abiding by environmental laws.

Students tour a paper mill in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, seeing the entire process of paper making while making their way through the facility.

Most people's drinking water comes from wells, which tap into the groundwater to access good, clean drinking water. Students here are learning all of the issues surrounding groundwater.

Here, students have reached Brandywine Lake, the destination for their night hike. The sound of frogs here is deafening!

A club member is trying out one of the compound bows to test her archery skills at the Spring Trip.