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• Ashley Austin
• 24 February 2025
• Naturalist Corner

Becoming Salt Smart

The Road to Water Contamination: Road Salts Environmental Impact____________________________________________
As winter begins to come to an end, warming temperatures and sunny days melt the snow around us, bringing a taste of spring and promising good weather to come. But what happens to snow as it melts? Where does it end up? And what does it take with it? Our biggest hitchhiker when it comes to snow melt is the very thing we use to comb...Read More  

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• Ashley Austin
• 1 January 2025
• Naturalist Corner

Welcome Back!

As this post is being written, snow is falling gently throughout the property, blanketing the grounds in a calming, serene white. Campers busily construct shelters in the pine forest, eagerly attempting to practice shielding themselves from the elements. Inside, the office is quiet as staff type away at their desks, preparing for the months to come. It is a peaceful, rejuvenating step into 2025. 
Though 2024 has come to an end, we’d be remi...Read More  

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• Andrew Herman, scout rank
• 21 October 2020
• Community

Woldumar: A Place for Everyone

Woldumar: A Place for Everyone

At Woldumar Nature Center, there are many different types of scenery and many different trail lengths. The trails include the Prairie Trail at 1.4 miles, Woodland at 1.5, Lagoon at 1.6, the longest trail, and the shortest trail, the Meadows at 0.7 miles. There are also secondary trails connecting certain trails to other parts. There are many different maps located around the trail so you can tell exactly wher...Read More  

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• Staff
• 31 August 2020
• Community

COVID-19 Visitor Information

COVID-19 Information for Visitors and Guests
(updated 8/31/2020)In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, we encourage visitors to enjoy the trails while observing general best practices for social distancing, as well as the following additional precautions:
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• Sylvia Colles
• 7 June 2020
• Herb Garden

Garden Update May 2020

Spring weeding in the Woldumar Herb Garden has begun. It’s always exciting to see what has survived winter’s cold temperatures. Warm weather has brought an end to the truce between the bee balm and the lemon balm.  Both send out roots to expand their territory, and they have both invaded the mulched demilitarized zone between them.  They also escape the garden by creeping under the fence.  They are both aggressive spreaders but are ...Read More  

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• Sylvia Colles
• 2 September 2019
• Herb Garden

Busy butterflies and bees

Each time I’ve been weeding in Woldumar’s herb garden these last few weeks of summer, I’ve been tempted to trim the hyssop into a more hedge-like shape, but there are still small white butterflies working hard in the hyssop flowers.  The bees are buzzing in the anise hyssop (Agastache) and oregano.  The garlic chives are in full blossom and there are a few second blossoms in the regular chives.  Practically all the seeds I start...Read More  

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• Sylvia Colles
• 10 August 2019
• Herb Garden

Late Summer Garden News

The bee balm (Monarada) is nearly finished blooming in the herb garden.  A few flowers have managed to escape through the fence.  The lavender flowers of the anise hyssop (Agastache) are now in blossom. This plant is actually neither anise nor hyssop, but it does smell like anise.  Also blooming are chamomile, yarrow, and feverfew.  The colors in the garden are not as vibrant as they are in the spring but are still lovel...Read More