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Event Series Event Series: Nature Book Club 2025

Crex Nature Book Club – Sand and Fire by Dave Peters

March 26, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Hybrid Hybrid Event
Free – $150.00

Join us virtually or in person the 4th Wednesday of each month for a nature-themed book club!

Ticket sales close 6 weeks before the meeting. You only need to purchase a ticket if you need a copy of the book supplied for you. The $15 ticket fee covers the cost of the book. If you want to obtain the book on your own, please choose the free RSVP instead of purchasing a ticket.

Zoom links will be sent directly to your email when you RSVP/purchase a ticket. A link to the book club meeting will also be available on this page when the book club meeting begins.

Want to join us at book club every month? Sign up for the 2025 book club pass and save! Receive books for the whole year at a discounted price. Click here for more information.

About the book…

While many people are familiar with the federally protected St. Croix and Namekagon Rivers of northwestern Wisconsin, few know about the Namekagon Barrens, a rare pine barrens landscape within a few miles of their confluence. A tiny remnant of the millions of barrens acres that once covered the region, the Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area lies in the heart of the state’s Northwest Sands, a band of pine and oak stretching from Bayfield on Lake Superior to St. Croix Falls on the Wisconsin-Minnesota border. Unfathomable amounts of glacial sand and repeated fires over thousands of years shaped a land of scrub oak and jack pine, blueberries and sweet fern, creating an ideal habitat for wolves and sharp-tailed grouse.

Just as compelling is the land’s rich human history, from Paleo-Indian hunters to Ojibwe berry pickers, loggers to early road builders, and immigrants whose farming efforts failed to the wildlife habitat specialists who manage it today. The book, told in memoir style and featuring color photographs by the author, sets the land’s unusual natural history as the backdrop for a multilayered story about the impact of people on this vulnerable landscape.

Questions? Call us at 715-463-2739 or email information@crexmeadows.org

Details

Date:
March 26, 2025
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Series:
Cost:
Free – $150.00

Organizer

Friends of Crex
Phone
715-463-2739
Email
information@crexmeadows.org
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Venues

102 E Crex Ave
Grantsburg, 54840 United States
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715-463-2739

Nature Book Club

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Nature Book Club
We will provide you with a copy of the book.
$15.00
Unlimited
2025 Book Club Pass
Get access to all 11 books at a discounted price! Books can be picked up quarterly at the visitor center.
$150.00
Unlimited