Preservation & Restoration 
at Schmeeckle Reserve
Schmeeckle Reserve's first priority is to protect, maintain, and restore native ecological communities of central Wisconsin. Explore the diversity of habitats and wildlife that call Schmeeckle home.
Land management activities at Schmeeckle Reserve include ecological succession projects, invasive species control, prescribed burns, and trail and boardwalk construction and maintenance.
Adding green space to the UW-Stevens Point campus has always been an important part of Schmeeckle's efforts to preserve natural communities of central Wisconsin. Discover how Schmeeckle has grown since its creation and current efforts to acquire additional green space.
Schmeeckle Reserve staff and students actively manage the natural area to protect a diversity of habitats once common in central Wisconsin. Learn how prairies, oak savannas, wetlands, and woodlands have been restored in Schmeeckle.
As a natural area surrounded by urban development, Schmeeckle Reserve serves as an important study site for invasive species. Discover how invasives such as common and glossy buckthorn, garlic mustard, spotted knapweed, phragmites, and Eurasian water milfoil are being managed.
For more than 70 years, Moses Creek flowed in a drainage ditch through the eastern portion of Schmeeckle Reserve. A major restoration project in summer and fall of 2010 re-created the natural meanders of the stream and restored the historic wetland floodplain. New trails and boardwalks provide access to the wetland, which has been planted with trees, shrubs, and marsh vegetation.
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