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Forest Family: Michelle Foss
Meet Michelle Foss, one of Fontenelle Forest’s restoration biologists and member of Team #SaveTheOaks… How long have you worked at Fontenelle Forest? I have worked at Fontenelle Forest for a total of four and a half years – almost three years as a part-time educator, and the rest as a…
Mud Pies in 2017
Mud Pies has been one of the most successful programs here at Fontenelle Forest. Since its inception, Mud Pies has provided the opportunity for thousands of young children and their adults to spend time together exploring nature! Mud Pies meets on Monday through Thursdays throughout the winter, spring, and fall….
Harvest Time
Now that hack and squirt season is slowing down, it’s time for our own harvest season. In order to ensure that our grass and flower seed supply is local, we collect much of it ourselves on our own property. We can’t always collect the quantity of seeds of the plants…
The Perfect Gift
This year, give a gift that gives all year long – a membership to Fontenelle Forest! Fontenelle Forest members receive unlimited access to our 25 miles of trails, Nature Center, Raptor Woodland Refuge, exhibits, and programming for all ages. Plus special member exclusive events, reduced prices for our Nature Discovery…
Twenty Years of Urban Deer Management: The Fontenelle Forest Experience
The presence of white-tailed deer in developed landscapes is a considerable problem in North America. An overabundant population of white-tailed deer creates problems. These problems consist of damage to personal property and plant communities, deer-vehicle collisions, and disease transmission have created demand for research and management. During the 1990s, these…
Free Flight: Cooper’s Hawks
It’s been another summer of mass quantities of Cooper’s Hawks coming in, many with West Nile virus. Once they recover, they can start to gain strength. After 40 plus birds, we were starting to wind down to just a few left. I had just moved two Hawks to the round…
Urban Wildlife around Fontenelle Forest
Contact Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation for injured wildlife at (402) 234-2473, or the humane society at (402) 444-7800 and they will get the injured animal to the appropriate organization. Deer – Leave fawns alone. Disturbing and removing new born deer (mid-May through late-June) is a common problem. We at Fontenelle Forest…
Webology at Fontenelle Forest
John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Students in the Omaha metro area are proving this to be true as they study the connections between living (and dead) creatures in the forest in our…
Explore Fontenelle Forest: Hidden Lake Trail
Hidden Lake trail is one of Fontenelle Forest’s less known pathways that will take dsc_0065you as far from the nature center as possible. It can be easily accessed by parking in lot adjacent to the Wetlands Learning Center via Child’s Road. A short walk along the Gifford Memorial Boardwalk will…
Conservation Corner: How We Use GIS
The art of cartography has been updated and tweaked through the years as humans have advanced. Even now, mapping is changing and adjusting to our digital world. Here at Fontenelle Forest, we have implemented a geographic information system (GIS) mapping program. Basically, GIS is a way to create, store and…