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Avian arrest: UW-Green Bay Police rescue injured eagle on Arboretum Trail
UW-Green Bay Police “apprehended” a juvenile male bald eagle on campus Friday, June 21, bringing the injured bird to the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary for evaluation. Officers were patrolling the Cofrin...
View ArticleAvian arrest: UW-Green Bay Police rescue injured young eagle on campus
UW-Green Bay Police made an avian arrest early Friday, rescuing an injured bald eagle on the Cofrin Arboretum Trail. The juvenile male bird, estimated to be 1 to 2 years old, was perched unusually...
View ArticleIn the media: Eagle rescue story picked up locally, elsewhere
UW-Green Bay Public Safety’s Friday (June 21) rescue of an injured bald eagle on campus made news across the country this weekend, with TV stations here, in Milwaukee, and as far away as Virginia...
View ArticlePublic Safety’s Eagle rescue continues to make news
WBAY, Channel 2 is among the media outlets picking up the feel-good story of an injured eagle rescued Friday (June 21) by UW-Green Bay Police. As we told you here last week, the eagle got officers’...
View ArticleWinner ran 48 miles on Arboretum trail… in one day
The Green Bay Running Club held its third annual Ultra Marathon on the trails of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Memorial Arboretum last Saturday. More than 60 runners repeated the approximately 4.4-mile loop...
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Making a difference: Annual ‘Steps’ walk raises funds for nonprofits
Nearly 100 participants laced up their walking shoes Saturday, Oct. 19, taking to the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum trails for the eighth annual UW-Green Bay Steps to Make a Difference Walk. Held to...
View ArticleNot on cold schools list, but frozen campus snapshots are making the rounds
Perhaps our much-lauded tunnels are to thank for UW-Green Bay’s exclusion from a recently released list of coldest colleges in the country — but that hasn’t stopped icy pictures taken from campus from...
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Photos: March to depart, but winter hangs around
The last week of March is often a time for the first signs of spring on the UW-Green Bay campus. In 2014, those signs are a little harder to see. University photographer Eric Miller took advantage of...
View ArticleSummer Solstice runners log 70, 80 miles on Arboretum trails… IN ONE DAY!
The Green Bay Running Club welcomed 96 ultra-marathoners for the club’s annual “Summer Solstice Challenge” last Saturday, June 28. The event invites hard-core runners to maximize one of the longest...
View ArticleSenior earns Sager award for work on Marinette County aquifer
The winner of this year’s Sager Scholarship is Christa Kananen, a senior majoring in Geoscience with a minor in Environmental Science. Her paper “Drawdown of the Potentiometric Surface of the...
View ArticleDry weather frustrates prairie fire, for now
If it’s April, it must be time for the seasonal controlled burn to reinvigorate the Keith White Prairie in the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Memorial Arboretum, adjacent to South Circle Drive. Originally...
View ArticleSnapshots: The junk they find in the Arboretum
The Round River Alliance student organization just completed its third annual Campus Cleanup event, focused on the Arboretum surrounding the campus. Not surprisingly, it seems those areas bordering...
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Les Raduenz Woods dedicated in campus arboretum
Editor’s note: For an enlarged version — which shows a current day aerial of campus and the Les Raduenz Woods (outlined in green) with inset images from 1960 (pre-campus and mostly farm fields) and...
View ArticleRaduenz returns for dedication of Cofrin Arboretum woods in his name
A ceremony was held this morning (Friday, May 15) to dedicate “Les Raduenz Woods,” a 22-acre forest/woodland south of Circle Drive across from the Office of Facilities Management. Raduenz was a central...
View Article‘BestColleges’ article includes shout-out to Cofrin Arboretum
As always, take online articles and “Best of” lists with multiple large grains of salt, but we will nevertheless note here that the website BestCollegesOnline.org has published an article headlined...
View ArticleSquad call Wednesday was for diabetic issue
Employees leaving campus after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday might have seen emergency response units on South Circle Drive in the vicinity of the Arboretum trails near the Facilities Management Building. We’ve...
View ArticleThe passing of Penny Cofrin
Staff members in the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity and others across campus are mourning the passing of Penelope F. Cofrin, who died last week in Bellingham, Wash., at age 62. The youngest of six...
View ArticleRemember: Spawning Run 5K is Saturday
The trails of the Cofrn Arboretum will be the site for the Spawning Run 5K at 10 a.m. Saturday (Oct. 17). The UW-Green Bay student chapter of the American Fisheries Society Student Chapter is...
View ArticleStudent research contributes to conservation efforts at UWGB, symposium is...
GREEN BAY – Five University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will report on research conducted in three UW-Green Bay natural areas at the 27th annual Cofrin Student Symposium from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday,...
View ArticleUWGB Retirees hosting arboretum walk
Mark your calendars for a UWGB Arboretum walk at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 10. Interested participants should meet at the Lambeau Cottage Parking Lot at 11 a.m. The walk will be slow and easy as the group...
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