We’re proud to share this beautiful photo essay by Eddee Daniel, highlighting our blossoming prairie here at Lakeshore State Park. Join the author and our DNR naturalist guide, Anne Duffy, on a tour through acres of wildflowers and tall grasses. 🌿 With this essay, we have an opportunity to: – Explore the colorful and diverse prairie […]
INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP OR PARTICIPATING? We are excited to announce the 2nd Annual Wildflowers on the Water gathering on Saturday, Sept. 7 from 3-7PM at Lakeshore State Park in Milwaukee, WI featuring the founder and visionary of Illustrious Creative Works & Sincerely in Song, Sarah Fierek. Additional artists and vendors will be announced soon. SUPPORT […]
It started in 2018 with a group of citizens concerned about plastic pollution. Today, Plastic Free MKE (PFM) is a nationally recognized coalition that is working to make Milwaukee and its neighborhoods plastic free. Suffice to say, that’s an enormous task! From the beginning, Plastic Free MKE found great partners in the Urban Ecology Center, and with […]
It’s launch time for this year’s Friends Membership Campaign! We invite you to support our wonderful urban gem on the lake and enjoy all it has to offer. 2023 Highlights 2024 Plans For more information about our plans for 2024, please email us at admin@friendslsp.org Please consider making a donation below today! Park Pal MembershipsIndividual: $25Family: $50Prairie […]
Summer brings warmer days with flowers, butterflies and bumble bees, and evenings made magical by fireflies. Lakeshore State Park provides these simple natural joys right on the shores of Lake Michigan. A new flower blooms or new insect buzzes here every day. Seemingly random, these occurrences are naturally orchestrated. The habitat created at the park mimics a short grass prairie with native flowers and grasses with few trees. Native flowers […]
We Have More Prairie Plants! Over a few days in May, DNR staff and dozens of volunteers planted more than 1,200 native plant plugs in the park prairies. Recent soaking rains have helped these plants root into the hard soil – come to the park to see beautiful blooms as the plants mature! Many thanks to Friends of Lakeshore […]