March 19, 2025 By: Erin Parker, Interpretive Services Supervisor While March 20th might be best known as the first day of spring in 2025, it is also an annual holiday honoring frogs. That’s right, March 20th is World Frog Day-…

March 12, 2025 By: Maddie Lukens, Park Interpreter If there is one thing that the Metroparks are known for, it is that they are home to a wide array of wildlife. Chickadees chirping in the forest, painted turtles swimming amongst…

February 12, 2025 By: Steve Dishman, Interpreter Viewing wildlife at your Metroparks is a wonderful experience and one that many visitors take advantage of with cameras and binoculars. But you can find diverse wildlife in your own backyard, too. There…

February 5, 2025 By Sam Volz, Park Interpreter World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on February 2nd, to raise awareness about wetlands, their importance, and the threats they face. With a 2025 theme of “Protecting Wetlands for Our Common…

January 15, 2025 By: Maddie Lukens, Park Interpreter Pollinators, what would we do without them? From bees and wasps to butterflies and moths, and even flies and bats, we rely on pollinators to get the job done. What job may…

December 25, 2024 By Erin Parker, Interpretive Services Supervisor What are you looking forward to in the new year? If you are hoping to deepen your engagement with and understanding of southeastern Michigan’s myriad wild places and wildlife, consider the…

November 20, 2024 By Ali Groulx, Park Interpreter Environmental engineers, economy boosters, nation builders – beavers and muskrats live in harmony, colonizing the streams and ponds of the Great Lakes. The beaver is the original, most efficient engineer of the…

November 13, 2024 By Julie McLaughlin, Natural Resources Coordinator Fall is the time of year when most plants begin to shut down for the winter. We see the trees change colors, the late wildflowers go to seed, and our first…

November 6, 2024 By: Ali Groulx, Park Interpreter Knock, knock, knock. I look up - woodchips are flying, left and right. My eye catches a red flash, then black, then white – what I recognize as a pileated woodpecker, repositioning…