By Eric Peterson, FOX 11 News – December 6th, 2023 BAILEYS HARBOR (WLUK) — Some might call it a scene right out of a holiday movie. Volunteers at The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor are getting an old wooden cabin ready for their “Natural Christmas” celebration on Saturday. “This year, we decided to call it ‘Stories of [..Read more]
By Anna Foster, Program Director This November, while the rest of the peninsula is winding down, The Ridges is preparing for one of our biggest – and certainly the most festive – events of the year. Staff and volunteers spend countless hours getting ready for the event of the season. Two volunteers in particular have [..Read more]
Published by Door County Daily News, Tim Kowols – November 18th, 2023 A little bird seed and some patience at your home can go a long way to helping keep track of the area’s bird population. For over 120 years, the National Audubon Society has sponsored the early-winter bird census to track them as they travel across North America as a part [..Read more]
By Jeanne Farrell, Director of Marketing “At 3:30 a.m., with such dignity as I can muster of a July morning, I step from my cabin door, bearing in either hand my emblems of sovereignty, a coffee pot and notebook. I seat myself on a bench, facing the white wake of the morning star. I [..Read more]
By Sam Hoffman, Land Manager As the heart of fall approaches and our field season winds down, it’s the perfect time to highlight Ridges Sanctuary land management volunteers and their invaluable contributions to our organization. When I first joined The Ridges as Land Manager in November of 2021, one of the first projects I was [..Read more]
Published by Peninsula Pulse, Craig Sterrett – October 18th, 2023 Door County birders might see a short-billed dowitcher wading in the shallows during summer or early fall, but until now, they couldn’t tell where that bird came from or where it was going. Now that the Lake Michigan Bird Observatory has installed 20 radio-telemetry stations [..Read more]
By Door County Pulse, October 18th, 2023 What’s a citizen scientist and why are they so important to Door County conservation and land protection organizations? Debra Fitzgerald finds out from Paige Witek, community conservation coordinator for the Door County Land Trust, and Tony Kiszonas, director of research for The Ridges Sanctuary, prior to the first Citizen Science [..Read more]
Published by Peninsula Pulse, Craig Sterrett – October 5th, 2023 Door County has an amazing wealth of natural areas and hundreds of volunteers for multiple organizations who work individually and in teams to aid in ongoing and large-scale research projects and help protect, enhance and monitor dozens of sites. This month, for the first time [..Read more]
By Libby Humphries, Environmental Educator During the warmer months at The Ridges, a symphony of insects can be heard from the front garden to the Range Light corridor and throughout the rustic trails. This series of music, formed by layers of species harmonizing in unison, is the song of summer here. One of the key [..Read more]
Published by Door County Pulse, August 30th, 2023 In 1934, as a bulldozer stood ready to tear up 40 acres of boreal forest in Baileys Harbor, it was met by fierce opponents. “If you go any further, you will have to scoop us up, too!” said Emma Toft, who, along with local builder Frank Oldenberg [..Read more]
