Second Saturday Outdoor Adventure
Friends of the Fox River is excited to announce our new Second Saturday Event Series will be kicking off on January 11, 2020.... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Meet Your Chickadee Neighbor’s Brain!
By Jack MacRae Our wildlife neighbors adjust to the approach of winter in various ways. Some creatures migrate (red bats), some hibernate (fox... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Meet the Sumacs
By Jack MacRae The burgundy leaves of sumac fill the Fox Valley’s fall woods. The hue comes from the pigment anthocyanin and is... Read More
It’s Our Fox River Day – A Watershed-Wide Celebration
On Saturday, September 21, Friends of the Fox River will coordinate the first river-length event on the entire Fox River from Waukesha,... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Cats Named Bob
By Jack MacRae Our bobcats are busy. February means females are looking for houses and males are looking for females. Bobcats den... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Voley Moley!
By Furry Jack MacRae Voles live fast and die young. There are millions of these mousy rodents in our grassy neighborhoods throughout the... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Season of the Witch
By Jack MacRae Witch Hazel was one of my least favorite Looney Toons characters. She wasn’t a deep thinker like Foghorn Leghorn or... Read More
The Seasons of the Fox River
By Gary Swick Personally, I love living in a region that has distinct seasons. Walking ankle to waist deep in a stream... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Nighthawks
By Jack MacRae The nighthawks are dining. They appear at dusk in our October skies, swooping, darting and snatching bugs in their big... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Cute Baby Snakes
By Jack MacRae 20th century scientific research into Kindchenschema showed that humans consider baby animals as inherently cute. It has something to... Read More