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Green Bay Trail Day - A Sunny Success
Shoulder high blooms and colorful flag banners welcomed visitors to the Trail. The vent offered refreshments, live music, and an opportunity to engage in conversations with 22 organizations and individuals who offered 30 information and experiential stations along the Trail. Visitors filled tote bags with native plants, oak tree samples, craft projects, sustainable gardening resource materials, and free samples. New to the event were 12 fairy houses hidden in Shelton Park and 8 plein air painters. View pictures of the festivities at gbtrail.org.
Many thanks to our generous sponsors, the organizations and individual exhibitors, and more than 40 volunteers who helped make Green Bay Trail Day an enjoyable and festive event.
Views from the Trail Videos
We are pleased to showcase two videos in the Gallery – “A Summer’s Day on the Trail” and “Scenes from the Trail.”
What we do
We are environmental stewards of the Green Bay Trail, restoring a natural, prairie eco-system. Our goal is to make the trail a national example of the healthy intersection of nature and culture that inspires community and individual well-being. LEARN MORE
The Green Bay Trail is on the Map!
The Green Bay Trail has met the Homegrown National Park challenge. The Trail’s restoration showcases results achieved by implementing practices advocated by the Homegrown National Park initiative.
Homegrown National Park cofounders Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, and Michelle Alfandari, advocate using public and private spaces to support and expand biodiversity; “In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators, and manage water.”
83% of U.S. land is privately owned. Tallamy and Alfandari challenge property owners to select ecologically effective plants, shrink lawn size and remove invasives on these sites. These efforts will significantly restore the needed diversity to offset increasing climate change impacts.
*Accept the challenge. Start this fall and view the results next spring.
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Become a Homegrown National Park
Native Keystone Plants for Wildlife
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