June 17, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. SUMMER POTLUCK at Goose Island County Park, Shelter #3!
Make or buy some delicious food to share, bring your own beverage and your personal picnic kit (plate, utensils, cup/bottle), and bike, carpool or drive to Goose Island Shelter #3 on Wednesday, June 17. Bring your bug stuff, too! Starting at 5:30 p.m., we’ll talk, eat, share news about current Sierra Club campaigns, and enjoy another summer along the river together.
If you would like to tour the Southern Bluffs school prairie before the potluck, please see below.
If you are driving, consider offering a carpool ride. Offer or seek a ride at https://tinyurl.com/CRSCJune26Ride or call 608-315-2693.
You do not need to be a Sierra Club member to attend, though the Sierra Club is doing some pretty important work and welcome new talent and energy! Join here: https://tinyurl.com/CRSC-joinus
June 17 at 4:45 p.m. TOUR THE PRAIRIE at SOUTHERN BLUFFS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! Tour the prairie established at Southern Bluffs Elementary School with the help of a CRSC Environmental Education grant! Meet at the school parking lot, 4010 Sunnyside Drive, by 4:45 p.m. and Southern Bluffs teacher Darcy Lenz will guide us to the prairie. The school is just five minutes from the site of our annual summer potluck! See above for a link to the carpool option!
JUNE 2 - BOOK CLUB This month’s book club is hosted by the Sierra Club’s Transportation Access and Equity Team. Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar is, “a beguiling and absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage. Slate staff writer Henry Grabar brilliantly surveys the nation’s parking crisis, revealing how the compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems— from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster—and, ultimately, how we can free our cities from parking’s cruel yoke.”
RSVP for this online event June 2 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at https://tinyurl.com/WISC-PavedBook or call 608-315-2693 for access information.
JUNE 19 - CRSC ACTION GATHERING Join CRSC members and friends on Friday, June 19 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. learning about important environmental issues and taking action together to make a difference. We’ll watch a short educational video and then learn what we can do to work toward shared goals. Plus, there’s pizza! Questions? Call 608-315-2693 or email CRSierraClub@gmail.com.
JUNE 23 - CHAPTER ACTION HOUR Every month, the Wisconsin Chapter offers friends and members the opportunity to learn about a current environmental concern and take action together. Fall elections will bring new legislative leaders and possibilities. At the same time, federal policies and programs are changing rapidly. RSVP for this online event, from 6 to 7 p.m. online, at https://tinyurl.com/WISC-626Action or call 608-315-2693 to learn how to participate by phone.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GRANTS CRSC awarded several Earth Month environmental education grants this year. We’ll report on them over the next few months. First up, a report from Darcy Lenz, Southern Bluffs Elementary School in La Crosse.
On (Earth Day), Southern Bluffs was able to host two programs thanks to generous support from the Sierra Club! The $200 grant helped offset the $625 fee to host both programs.
Grades 3-5 International Owl Center Presentation - Owls and Us Game Show
This was hands-on and very engaging! Students learned basic facts about owls in Wisconsin, their role in the ecosystem, human-owl interactions, and then students learned about ways to help keep owls healthy. Kids were fired up!
PK-2 International Owl Center Presentation
The Owl Center gave a wonderful presentation to the younger students. Our program was called, “So You Want to be an Owl “ (interactive program on owl behavior) for the K-2nd grade group. The students were excited and engaged in learning about the owls. There was a lot of interaction with students which kept their interest and the questions coming.
MORE JUNE EVENTS
- 6/ 1: Documentary Film Screening - “Dear Sirs” at 6 pm in the Holmen Area Community Center. https://tinyurl.com/holmendearsirs
- 6/ 3: Friends of the Blufflands annual meeting. 7 p.m. at The Nature Place, La Crosse.
- 6/ 6: National Trail Days at Kickpoo Valley Reserve. https://kvr.state.wi.us/Events/Calendar
- 6/ 8: Driftless Eco Explorers 11 a.m. Holmen Library https://tinyurl.com/drftlsxplore
- 6/ 8: Driftless Eco Explorers 11 a.m. Great River Landing. https://lacrossecountylibrary.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=345216
- 6/ 9: Kane Street Community Garden Open House, 4 to 6 pm https://www.facebook.com/share/1aeYTmDfWW/
- 6/10: Ride SMRT 2 Viroqua & Transportation Liberation video. https://lacrosseata.blogspot.com / 608-315-2693
- 6/13: Procession of the Species at ArtSpire 11:30 am. https://artspire.thepumphouse.org/2026-performing-arts/
- 6/13: Critter Mobile at Vets Park, West Salem. Shelter 4. 1 pm. https://tinyurl.com/wsvetsparkprograms26
- 6/13: Bluff Country Snakes at Goose Island County Park. 2 pm. https://tinyurl.com/GIPark-snakes
- 6/20: Midsummer Fest at Norskedalen. https://www.norskedalen.org/events/midsummer-fest/
- 6/20: River Valley Raptors at Goose Island County Park. 2 pm. https://tinyurl.com/GIPark-snakes
- 6/20: T.R.I.P An Archaeology Walking Tour. 10 - noon. Trempealeau Library. https://swmlibrary.org/calendar/
- 6/24: Citizens Climate Lobby meeting at 6:30 p.m. Email info@lacrosseccl.org for details.
- 6/25: Thinking Big about Wisconsin Passenger Rail conference 1:30 to 4:30, Oriental Theater, Milwaukee. https://www.hsrail.org/events/thinking-big-about-wisconsin-passenger-rail/
- 6/27: The Critter Mobile at Goose Island County Park. 2 pm. https://tinyurl.com/GIPark-snakes
- 6/27: Bluff Country Snakes. Vets Memorial Park, West Salem. Shelter 2 at 2 pm. https://tinyurl.com/wsvetsparkprograms26
- 6/27: Free E-Recycling 8 to noon. N5550 Dynamic Way, Onalaska. https://www.facebook.com/share/1D3DBJ8JpK/
