February 21-23, 2023. Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s 2023 Wetland Science Conference in Stevens Point. We gave an oral presentation and also shared a poster.

April 14-16, 2023. Society for Ecological Restoration—Midwest Great Lakes Chapter Annual Meeting, “For the Love of Restoration: Tradition and Adaptation”, in Baraboo. We gave an oral presentation and also shared a poster. Also, Land Restoration School alumni and now LRS guest faculty Mars Patterson presented her restoration plan for Hopkins Hollow in Milwaukee.

April 25, 2023. Nancy and Dan leading a monotype printmaking workshop with the Indigenous Nations Poets 2023 Fellows in Door County.

May 27, 2023. Leading a hike for The Ridges Sanctuary’s Festival of Nature, Climate Impacts Below the Escarpment at a wetland gem protected by a Door County Land Trust Conservation Easement.

April - June, 2023. Nancy and Dan are planning to teach sessions on wetlands, aquatic life and making ecological connections for Wisconsin’s Master Naturalist Program in Door County.

June, 2023. Leading our annual wetlands field trip with Friends of Gibraltar (FOG) 4th Grade, wetlands and forests, along with Door County Land Trust.

In January, we led hikes at our part of Bay Shore Blufflands for The Clearing’s Winter Hike class. What fun! Fresh snow, and plenty of it.

June-August: Inaugural year of the Land Restoration School!

Dan and Nancy taught sessions on wetlands, aquatic life and making ecological connections in Door County for Wisconsin’s Master Naturalist Program.

Nancy gave a talk on Jens Jensen’s conservation work and helped setup hikes at The Clearing for the Landscape Design School of the National Garden Clubs.

Dan and Nancy taught an ecopoetic printmaking workshop (or pdf) for Write On Door County with ecopoet Sarah Nance on Washington Island (Yup, transporting a press and everything to the island!)

Nancy and Dan taught a monotype printmaking class for the Miller Art Museum at their M3 space in Sturgeon Bay.

Nancy, Dan, and Chris Young gave talks about the Land Restoration School’s inaugural year and future plans at UWGB’s Natural & Applied Sciences Seminar series and at Wisconsin Wetland’s Wetland Coffee Break series.

Dan organized and led panel for Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s annual Wetland Science Conference on Starting or growing an ecological restoration business.

Talks: Nancy: Jens Jensen Landscape Design Principles and The Clearing, to the Landscape Design School of the National Garden Clubs. Nancy: Visible and Invisible Mending - an intersection of art and ecology, for Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s Wetland Coffee Break virtual series. Dan and Nancy: Restoration at Crossroads: Re-Meandering and More, at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay, WI. (In 2021 we completed the Ecological Restoration Plan for Crossroads at Big Creek and are assisting Crossroads with its implementation.) Nancy and Dan: Re-Meandering at Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, blending art+ecology. And, we gave a talk on Door County forest and meadow restoration at at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay, hosted by Crossroads and Wild Ones - Door County.

We co-led a workshop, with poet Kimberly Blaeser, Translating Nature: Words and Images of Place, sponsored by Write On, Door County and Gathering Ground, including an afternoon of monotype printmaking using natural materials.

Hikes and public projects: We led wetland hikes for Watershed Day at Crossroads at Big Creek. We helped with a native tree planting and invasive species management day with Friends of Pebble Beach in Sister Bay. We organized a native plug planting project at Crossroads at Big Creek’s The Cove Preserve in collaboration with Cream City Conservation.

Dan and Nancy each have a few monotypes in the Wildlife Biennial XX exhibition at Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay. And Nancy’s original monotypes are for sale in the museum shop.

Kickoff ecological restoration project on National Public Lands Day in September at Crossroads at Big Creek. Watch a 3-minute video here. A collaboration also with Cream City Conservation from Milwaukee as well as Crossroads interns engaged in on-the-ground restoration work.

Nancy’s virtual art exhibit at the Urban Ecology Center - Menomonee Valley branch, “Invisible and Visible Mending”. Includes video of artist talk.

Led hikes as part of Know Your Parks and Preserves, a winter workshop of The Clearing.

Some plans were cancelled this year (Covid19) that could happen in the future, including: speaking on “Jens Jensen: Landscape Design Principles and The Clearing” for the National Garden Club convention in Milwaukee; leading educational program and hikes for Friends of Gibraltar Schools 4th-grade students; leading walk & talk of the demonstration pollinator garden at Bay Shore Blufflands Preserve; leading field trip for writing session at Write On Door County’s Nature and Environmental Writing Conference.

Nancy’s artwork in a solo show at the UW Madison Arboretum's Steinhauer Trust Gallery.

Led wetland hikes for Wisconsin Wetlands Association, The Ridges’ Festival of Nature, Friends of Gibraltar 4th grade classes, Door County Land Trust.

Led a volunteer planting day at Bay Shore Bluffflands Preserve for Door County Land Trust.

Presented talks: Dan gave the keynote at the Annual Gathering event of the Door County Land Trust; Nancy and Dan spoke in Houghton at the Carnegie Museum, “Designing Beautiful Native Plant Landscapes”, for Sustainable Futures Institute, Keweenaw Wild Ones, Keweenaw Land Trust and the Keweenaw Garden Club.

Taught classes: a workshop at The Clearing, “Beloved Door County Native Plant Communities – a deep dive with art and science”; a workshop for UW-Madison Arboretum’s Native Gardening Conference.

Screen printed on t-shirts in rainbow colors at Open Door Pride Fest.

Dan continued to support conducting water testing for Bay Shore Property Owners Association, in conjunction with UW-Oshkosh.

Led hikes/activities for Friends of Gibraltar Schools, Door County Land Trust, The Clearing's board of directors.

Dan Collins presented at Wild Words 2018, for Earth Day, Celebrating the Land and Waters of Door County

We taught a two-day workshop at The Clearing in Ellison Bay, WI - Landscapes of Place: Landscape Design with Art & Ecology.

Co-taught with Darrel Morrison for New York Botanical Garden, a field course on native plant communities at Black Rock Forest.

Led wetlands hikes for The Ridges' Festival of Nature, Door County Land Trust, Climate Change Coalition of Door County, FOG, Friends of Gibraltar Schools, and Bjorklunden.

Moss Survey at Bay Shore Blufflands with bryologist Jamie Ferschginger. 29 mosses identified to species and a few more to genus.

Helped organize, led walks and presented at the Jens Jensen Landscapes Symposium at The Clearing.

Led wetlands hikes for The Ridges' Festival of Nature, Door County Land Trust, Climate Change Coalition of Door County, FOG, Friends of Gibraltar Schools, and Bjorklunden.

Nancy presented keynote at UW Arboretum's 2015 Native Gardening Conference in Madison.

Co-taught week-long field class for New York Botanical Garden at Black Rock Forest Consortium.

Led hikes for Natural Resources Foundation, Wisconsin Wetlands Association, Door County Land Trust, Friends of Gibraltar Schools, The Ridges and The Latitudes hiking group.

Our landscape/art installation at About Sturgeon Bay in June at Popelka Trenchard Glass.

We spoke at Wisconsin Wetlands' 20th Anniversary Wetland Science Conference. Dan: Achieving balance and success in a wetland complex infested with one million stems of reed canary grass. Nancy: A twist for conservation plans: More doing and less planning, in the 1700-ha Bay Shore Blufflands SNA.

We hosted wetland hikes as part of a team working with Wisconsin Wetlands Association for outreach to wetland landowners. Get your own copy of My Healthy Wetlands!

Landscapes of Place showed our Conservation Master Planning work for Bay Shore Blufflands at Lake Michigan Day, UW-Manitowoc’s Lakeshore Water Institute. Great to connect to new colleagues!

Landscapes of Place led Festival of Nature hike: Spring Wetlands below the Escarpment, Bay Shore Blufflands.

We presented at the 2014 SER Midwest-Great Lakes Conference in St. Paul, "The development of an ecological restoration approach and suite of site-specific projects for conservation of a Door County, Wisconsin landscape using concepts from A Pattern Language".

Nancy spoke in Philadelphia and Connecticut at the 25th anniversary of NDAL, New Directions in the American Landscape, and performed a design sketching demonstration.

Landscapes of Place led symposium: Practitioners of Intimate Restoration at SER 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin. Dan spoke on Nurturing your community to watch, witness and work.

Dan led the hike: Survey Re-enactment on the Niagara Escarpment, and Escarpment Wetland Complex Tour, a Ledge Tour 2013 and program of the Lakeshore Natural Resources Partnership and the Niagara Escarpment Resource Network.

Nancy and Dan led Natural Resources Foundation field trip Jens Jensen's Legacy in Door County, with the wonderful Roy Lukes.

Landscapes of Place presented at Riveredge Nature Center's Science For Everyone on the natural history of the Milwaukee area.

Nancy presented keynote address at Milwaukee Wild Ones Conference: Your Wild Garden as a Portal to the World.

Landscapes of Place presented an interactive design/sketching session, How to Design with Native Plants at Riveredge Nature Center's Knee Deep in Prairies seminar.

Landscapes of Place presented at SER Midwest-Great Lakes Annual Conference in Ann Arbor on participatory restoration. Nancy elected to SER Midwest Board of Directors.

Nancy spoke on participatory restoration at First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee Sunday Forum.

Landscapes: Wild, Forgotten, Restored. Exhibit at Urban Ecology Center of monotypes (unique prints) from Nancy Aten and Dan Collins.

Nancy spoke at the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, Unsolicited Design: Using Your Voice.

Dan interviewed by WUWM's Lake Effect on the State Stewardship Fund and its practical implementation in Wisconsin.