From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 18, an interactive study of the Moses Creek Wetland will be held. Participants will meet at the north end of the Moses Creek Wetland on Wood Lane off North Point Drive. That afternoon, Schmeeckle Reserve will host “The Power of Nature,” a walking program about naturalists and journaling, from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Visitors Center, 2419 North Point Drive.

 

A pair of workshops will be offered April 19 at Schmeeckle Reserve Visitor Center. The UW-Stevens Point Fire Crew will offer “The Importance of Fire to Native Ecosystems” from 10 a.m. to noon. The Society for Ecological Restoration and Ethnobiology will follow with the presentation “Creative Uses for Invasive Species” from noon to 4 p.m. Participants will cut down invasive buckthorn and use it in a craft project.

 

Screenings of eight episodes of the 2014 Emmy Award-winning documentary “Years of Living Dangerously” will begin at 8 and 9 a.m. on April 20 at the Dreyfus University Center Theater. Screenings of two episodes will then be shown at 8 and 9 a.m. on April 21-23. Coffee will be provided for those bringing their own mug.

 

On April 21, students in a waste management class will learn how well recyclable materials are separated from trash during an audit of campus waste in the Sundial area beginning at noon.

 

Nate Hagens will present “Turning 21 in the Anthropocene-An Invitation for Young People to Participate in the Future” at 7 p.m. April 21 at the DUC Theater. Anthropocene is current geological period during which human activities began to affect global climate and ecosystems. Hagens, who has advanced degrees in finance and natural resources, is co-director of the Bottleneck Foundation and teaches at the University of Minnesota.

 

Earth Day, April 22, will feature the annual Eco Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the DUC Laird Room. With the theme “Bee Aware,” a variety of vendors will offer services and tips to be more sustainable. The event is sponsored by the student Environmental Educators and Naturalists Association.

 

Several other activities will occur on Earth Day. Tours of the Waste Education Center will be offered from 2 to 5 p.m. The “Stop Enbridge Tar Sands” tour, where people can learn more about the effect of tar sands on communities and climate, will be in the Trainer Natural Resources building, Room 170 from 6 to 9 p.m. Schmeeckle Reserve will also host an Earth Day Frog Walk from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., meeting at the Wood Lane entrance of the reserve.

 

The UW-Extension Wisconsin Lakes Partnership convention will be held at the Holiday Inn, Stevens Point, beginning at 8 a.m. on April 23 and closing at 11 p.m. on April 25. The event includes hands-on workshops, educational displays, research presentations, off-site tours and panels of experts in lake science. For more details or to register, go to www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/.

 

A workshop on making crayons from soil will begin at 5 p.m. on April 23 in TNR Room 255. At 7 p.m., a screening of “Wisconsin from the Air,” a Wisconsin Public Television film that highlights hundreds of Wisconsin landmarks from the sky, will be held in TNR Room 120, and will be followed by a Landscape Protection panel discussion.

 

An Eco-Fair concert will be from 7 to 11 p.m. on April 23 in the DUC Encore Room, with the bands Red Tide and Band Bill performing.

 

On April 24, tree plantings and a tour of the campus garden will be offered from noon to 3 p.m. by Students for Sustainability. Meet at the rain garden outside of the Natural Resource Building at noon or come to the campus garden, adjacent to the UW Credit Union on Franklin Street, before 3 p.m.

 

From 1 to 4 p.m. on April 24 in the College of Professional Studies Room 116, Chuck Marohn will present a Strong Towns workshop on building safe and sustainable roads around UWSP for vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles. Marohn is president of Strong Towns, an organization that promotes financial development for communities across the nation.

 

Also on April 24, environmental advocate Marion Stoddart will talk following a film screening of the documentary “The Work of 1,000” at 3 p.m. in the DUC Theater. The film tells the story of Stoddart’s work as a citizen leader to restore polluted waters in the Nashua River near her Massachusetts home and lobby for clean water laws.

 

Several UW-Stevens Point student organizations joined UW Extension–Lakes to bring Stoddart, 87, to campus. She is the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership Convention on April 25.

 

An Earth Week benefit concert and Save the Frogs Day celebration will be from 4 to 10 p.m. on April 25 in the DUC Laird Room. Sarah Red-Laird, founder of the Bee Girl Organization in Oregon, will speak on bee conservation at 4 p.m., followed by a video presentation from Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, author and environmentalist. Live music starts at 6 p.m., beginning with Kyerokaya, followed by the Hi-Matics at 7 p.m. and Prodo at 8 p.m. The event is free for high school and university students and $3 for non-students, and includes refreshments, games, face painting, a silent auction and merchandise for sale. Proceeds will go to Save The Frogs! International to support amphibian populations.

 

Earth Day was founded on April 22, 1970, by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson as a peaceful teach-in to raise environmental awareness and protection. In 2014, the City of Stevens Point was the first in the Midwest to recognize Save the Frogs Day as a city holiday.