Meetings and Outings Link

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

Thursday, May 14, 2026 - 7:00pm

Land Trusts in Wisconsin

May monthly meeting

Girl Scout Building (next to Bubolz Nature Preserve)

4693 N. Lynndale Drive, Appleton

Learn about the Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust and their conservation work. Learn ways we can explore and become involved. NEWLT began with a simple but important concept that emerged from the 1993 The State of the Bay: A Watershed Perspective, which stated, “We cannot clean up lower Green Bay unless we clean up Lake Winnebago. We cannot clean up Lake Winnebago unless we clean up the Fox and Wolf Rivers. We have to attack pollution at its source, and we have to do it through the entire watershed.”

Garlic Mustard Pulling at High Cliff State Park Remove those nasty invasive plants on the Indian Mounds Trail and the Limekiln Trail. Join us on May 9th at 9:30 If you want join us camping at a Group Site the same weekend at High Cliff.  Either Friday, Saturday or both days.  • Check out Details in the Meetings and Outings Link •

Join us at one of our Outings this Spring & Summer.

Check details in the Meetings and Outings link

Group Camping, High Cliff - May 8-10
Garlic Mustard Removal, High Cliff - May 9
Wescott Bike ride - May 16
Brillion Nature Center Hike - May 23
Point Beach Ice Age Trail Hike - June 6
Summer Solstice Hike, Mosquito Hill - June 21
Bike WIOUWASH Trail - July 7
Beer Garden, DePere - July 14
Explore Lasley Point Archaeological Site - July 18
Wequiok Falls Hike, Brown County. - August 1
Beer Garden, DePere - August 18
Bike Eisenbahn State Trail - August 29
 

At our November 2024 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.

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. 

Fox Valley Sierra Group Photos

2025 

2024

Pinot's painting fund raiser

 

 

Fonferek Glen County Park

Cherney Maribel Caves

 

 

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.

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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.