Established in 1848, the UW-Madison Geology Museum has spent more than 150 years gathering geological curiosities from around the world.

Gathering Waters Conservancy’s mission is to help communities, land trusts and landowners protect the places that make Wisconsin special. Our goal is to increase the amount of protected land in the state through private voluntary action. We are a statewide service center for Wisconsin’s land trust community, and we build the capacity of the state’s private, non-profit conservation organizations through consulting, public education, and policy advocacy.

Monona Terrace

Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Located in an old lobe of Lake Waubesa along its southwest shore, Waubesa Wetlands is one of the highest quality and most diverse wetlands remaining in southern Wisconsin. Nine major springs and numerous smaller ones located within and around the area provide the wetland with an abundance of high quality water. The extensive wetlands and high quality of the water contribute significantly to the water quality of Lake Waubesa. Two inlet streams are also present - Murphy Creek and Swan Creek. Peat deposits - up to 95' deep in places - underlie a mix of sedge meadow, fen, and shrub-carr communities. The sedge meadow is a complex of different species that vary in abundance and structure in response to the complex hydrological system. Other parts of the site feature quaking sedge mats, calcareous fens, springs and streams with submerged aquatics, and deep spring cones lined with filamentous algae and purple-colored bacteria. The carbonate rich fens feature numerous species including grass-of-parnassus, Riddell's goldenrod, northern bog aster, lesser fringed gentian, and sage willow. Other abundant wetland species are common lake sedge, tussock sedge, American woolly-fruited sedge, common bur-reed, swamp loosestrife, American water horehound, blue-joint grass, and numerous asters. Bird life is diverse and features four rare species: least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis), American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), and black tern (Chlidonias niger). Other birds include sandhill crane, green heron, marsh and sedge wren, blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, and willow flycatcher. The state-threatened Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) has also been found here. Waubesa Wetlands is owned by the DNR and The Nature Conservancy and was designated a State Natural Area in 1974.

High Noon Saloon is a live music venue that caters to many different styles of music, including rock, alternative, metal, indie, alt-country, pop, punk, bluegrass, folk, and blues.

Public Library

Residence of the Governor of Wisconsin

UW Extension Office

Madison Area Technical College (MATC)

Citizen's group with the mission "to promote a healthy Lake Wingra throught an active watershed community."

The Sundance Cinemas Madison is located at the Hilldale Mall.

Visitor Center of the UW-Madison Arboretum

Contributing to the continued success of the biotechnology industry and to efforts aimed at enhancing educational opportunities, especially in the life sciences -- building and strengthening communities that support lifelong learning.

Lussier Family Heritage Center

Madison, WI area

Middleton

Middleton's Northside Elementary School's library.

Middleton High School (MHS) has nearly 2000 students and is located on the far west side of Madison in the City of Middleton. We are an Earth Partnership School and have prairie plots as well as a rain garden on the edge of our organic vegetable raised gardens. During the 2008-09 school year we offer two AP environmental science classes and four sections each of a social studies-science team effort in environmental studies I & II. MHS has a fifty+ member ecology club which has raised $16,000 in the last four years for local environmental causes. A trip to Costa Rica is taken on odd alternating years and a wilderness backpacking trip occurs on the even years. The students are involved in many community service projects ranging from oak savanna restoration and invasive species removal to prairie planting. Independent study opportunities are offered for semester credit. These include ecological restoration at Goose Pond Sanctuary, Devil's Lake study with limnologist Richard Lathrop, working with biologists biweekly at the International Crane Foundation and participating in a porcupine study at Sandhill Wildlife Area. Two Envirothon teams have competed at the State competition since 1999 and have placed in the top three every year except one. In 2000, 2001, and 2008 MHS Envirothon teams represented Wisconsin in the Canon Envirothon, competing with teams from the U.S. and Canada.

Hotel and Conference Center

Verona Area High School is a public high school located 5 miles southwest of Madison. The student population is around 1,400 and growing. Located directly on the school campus is a 12 acre school forest. The high school has a dedicated upper level ecology course as well as a paid naturalist position.

Paul Olson Elementary School

We are located in Stoughton Wisconsin in a small rural community of about 12,000. Stoughton is about 15 miles south of the capitol city of Madison. We have a strong Norwegian heritage and host the second biggest Syttendai Mai Festival in the world, second only to the one in Norway. We also have the famed High School Norwegian dancers who perform all over the world. We are a Tree city and have many historic homes and districts that are designated historical. Stoughton also claims to have started the coffee break and have a festival for that as well. We have a State Park and are on Lake Kegonsa and Yahara river runs through town. We are in the process of lengthening our Yahara river trail that will eventually connect to McFarland which is almost to Madison.

Stoughton High School