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✏️ Call for Entries Reminder 🎨 If you're an artist or know an artist -- it's time to enter our Juried Art Exhibition! 📅 Entries are due this Friday, May 10. 📍Full prospectus at wesselmanwoods.org/artshow 🌿 Thank you to Inman's Picture Framing for sponsoring the 2024 show!

Did you know that baby turtles have belly buttons? 🐢👀 A baby turtle is attached to a yolk sac for nutrition while developing in the egg, kind of like baby birds 🐣 The umbilical scar is on the plastron and will disappear as the baby grows larger. 📷 Baby common snapping turtle

Because severe storms present a real and serious danger to guests, staff, and volunteers, Wesselman Woods will be closing early today to make sure everyone has ample time to get out of the forest and get home safely. We'll close today (May 8) at 2 PM ⛈️ Stay safe out there!

We welcomed board members out for a day of learning about & connecting with Wesselman Woods ☀️🌳✨ We are grateful to have such an enthusiastic and committed group to help guide the future of this amazing place. To our board: THANK YOU for your time, energy, & dedication 😊

Tomorrow, May 19, meet us at Wesselman Woods to hear our final New Traditions free concert for this season. It will feature the music of Latin America, plus Monte Skelton and his original music plus some Stevie Wonder. Bring a chair/blanket and enjoy an afternoon with the EP!

A hot but great afternoon at Wesselman Woods with our New Traditions final performance of the 2023-2024 season with the Eykamp String Quartet and Monte Skelton! What a wonderful musical collaboration! Thanks to Dick & Diane Arneson for their sponsorship of this Diversity Series.

This Thursday (05/23) @ 8 PM: embark on an enchanting night hike through Wesselman Woods! 🌛 As twilight fades into darkness, the forest comes alive with a symphony of nocturnal sounds. 🎟️ Tickets are limited! Only 12 spots per session. Register at bit.ly/trailstwilight…

Fungus Appreciation Post ✨🍄✨ All the recent rain and humidity did make for some excellent fungal finds in the forest. How many of these can you name?! 🤔

Oh, the GALL of it all 🌳 This HUGE gall was spotted on an Ash tree from Main Trail. We estimate this gall is about 3 ft in diameter (~the size of a large beach ball) filled w/gnarly, burled wood. Galls form from infections due to insects, viruses, bacteria, and/or fungi 🐜🍄

Hang tight 🌿👀 A volunteer captured these great photos of a male giant stag beetle (aka elk stag beetle) 🌳 The "elaphus" in their Latin name ("Lucanus elaphus") stems from the Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos) meaning “deer”.

Next week, we will continue our Night Owl series with a discussion about Islam and Ecology 🌿🌱 RSVP for our free event happening Thursday, June 13 at 6 PM by going to bit.ly/nightowls24 (link also in bio) before the seats fill up!

Passionate about nature & looking for a way to give back to your community? Become a volunteer for our summer events! 📝 Trivia in the Treehouse 6/22 [bit.ly/sips0624vol] 🌿✂️ Weed Wrangle @ Howell 6/29 [bit.ly/weedwrangle] ☀️ Summer Free Days [bit.ly/wwfreedayvol]

Heads up! ✴️ Wesselman Woods will be closed on Wednesday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth. Make plans to come out and see us today before 5 PM -OR- come back out on Thursday between 9 AM to 5 PM to enjoy the trails and Nature Playscape ☀️🌳