Educational meetings normally take place on the first Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. at River Bend Nature Center. These are followed by a potluck social and most often a prize drawing.

Regularly scheduled meetings and chapter activities run year round from on the first Saturday of the month from 10:00-11:30 a.m. and are routinely held at the River Bend Nature Center, N. Greenbay Road, Racine, unless otherwise noted. Additional activities and volunteer opportunities are also available to members. Contact Nan Calvert at prairiedog@e-3.cc or (262)681-4899 for activity/program information.

    Apr 05, 2008 (Sat)    

Prescribed burn of a portion of the upper parking lot island at River Bend Nature Center. This a weather dependent event. Check your email on April 4th and the morning of the burn to see if it is a go.

    May 03, 2008 (Sat)    

Rain Date for the prescribed burn of the upper parking lot island. If the April burn was a success, we will go on a Spring ephemeral hike at the nature center instead

    Jun 07, 2008 (Sat)    

GO NATIVE! NATIVE PLANT SALE KENOSHA COUNTY CENTER 9am to 3pm


This is the biggest, most exciting native plant sale in the area. Hundreds of native trees and shrubs as well as woodland beauties, prairie and rain garden/wetland species eagerly await your purchase. Over 6,000 plants will be on hand for the day - barring catastrophic crop failure of course.


Proceeds from our sale go to River Bend Nature Center, community service projects directed at habitat restoration and improvement, the Wild Ones Journal, other Wild Ones funds drives, and to support our chapter's activities. This year we will also be donating to Pringle Nature Center in Kenosha.


At the end of the sale, members of the Root River Chapter of Wild Ones will be able to purchase plants at a deep discount from the sale price. The time that this opportunity will begin is yet to be determined and will be announced closer to the sale. This is a chapter members only offer