Meetings and Outings Link

Meetings and Outings are open to the public. Please signup for outings on this site or contact the leader.

December 12, 2024 - December Meeting
6:30pm - Girl Scout Building 
4693 N. Lynndale Drive, Appleton

Sierra Club Holiday Party
 

Please bring a dish to pass for a pot-luck, your place setting, drinks, any alcohol beverage, and a white elephant gift for the exchange. The party starts at 6:30 PM!! Please join us for good food, good conversation and a “mean” game of exchange. All in good fun. Enjoy the reactions as people select unopened gifts, or take prizes that are already opened. (About our white elephant gift exchange. Wrap up something you already own, but don’t really care to keep for the “White Elephant Gift Exchange”. It should be somewhat gift worthy, and can be funny or unusual.)

At our November meeting we had a wonderful and informative meeting about Sacred Prehistoric Sites of the Fox Valley.
Presenter Mark Walker has offered to provide a link of the presentation.
 

Sacred Prehistoric Sites of the Fox River Valley
pdf link from the presentation

The Fox River waterway has seen active human habitation since the end of the last ice age. Indigenous cultures honored sacred spaces near springs, rivers, and lakes with petroglyphs (rock art), petroforms (rock arrangements), and earthen mounds. Through maps, aerial images, and early historic writings, Mark Walker will provide a virtual tour of these cultural and spiritual spaces. Presenter Mark Walker (trail name "TieDye") builds and maintains segments of the Ice Age Trail, monitors land with the Northeast WI Land Trust, and recently became a Wisconsin Master Naturalist. 

Join us at one of our outings this Fall.

Explore Fonferek Glen County Park - September 7
Ice Age Trail Hike-a-thon - October 5
Plover River Ice Age Trail Hike - October 12
Explore & Hike Maribel Caves County Park - October 20
Morning Hike at Wild ones and Guckenberg-Sturm Preserve - November 9

Peter cooking a wonderful peach cobbler at our May meeting

Peter and Monny planting trees on Earth Day at High Cliff

Jo ready to plant a tree

Garlic mustard pulling at High Cliff

Hiking the Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve

Learning about wetland restoration in Oneida Nation Land

January 20th snowshoeing on the Ice Age Trail at Iola Winter Sports Park
(Hoping for more snow this year)

13 of us ventured out for a New Years Day Hike at Fallen Timbers Environmental Center in Black Creek

Painting Fundraiser

Another fun and successful night at Pinot's Palette in Appleton, painting "Winter’s Song."  

Our newsletters (available here or in the menu above) have excellent information about our meetings, outings and other issues.  Please read.

Check Calendar for FUTURE EVENTS & OUTINGS

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Skunk Hollow Mine Appeal

The Green Lake Association (GLA), the Green Lake Conservancy (GLC), the Green Lake Sanitary District (GLSD), and one landowner united to file two appeals in an effort to further evaluate potential impacts associated with the proposed Skunk Hollow Mine.

For further information log on the tab Conservation Issues

Our group is in need of leaders to join our board of directors.  Please contact us if interested in helping our group survive and thrive.

Learn about the proposed Back 40 Mine along the Menominee River on the Wisconsin border.

Don't allow our DNR to give away part of an important State Park to a private corporation.  Please visit http://www.friendsblackriverforest.org to learn more.

Our monthly meetings are held the 2nd Thursday of each month (except July and August).   Most meetings begin at 7:00, with the building opening around 6:30 for setup, socializing and snacks.  Everyone is welcome.  Most meetings are free.

We welcome anyone who loves the outdoors and wants to meet others with the same love. We welcome anyone who is concerned about the natural environment and wants to learn more. Help us protect our natural heritage by participating in our meetings, outings, educational events, and political actions to explore, enjoy, and protect northeastern Wisconsin.

The Fox Valley Group of Sierra Club is the local branch of The Sierra Club – Wisconsin Chapter in northeastern Wisconsin. 

 Our group covers Brown, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Outagamie, Waupaca, and Winnebago Counties.  There are currently six active groups in Wisconsin under the umbrella of the Wisconsin Chapter.