The Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve works to preserve, protect and nurture the natural places on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus so that future generations can enjoy them just as we do today. 

In order to achieve our goals, we need your help!

For the past few years the Friends have worked on restoring Bill’s Woods and Frautschi Point.  With the completion of the Master Plan other Lakeshore Nature Preserve areas, including Tent Colony Woods, will be restored.  In addition to continuing our current projects, the Friends will participate in these new projects by providing labor and money.

The Friends of the Preserve needs your time, your talents, your enthusiasm, and, of course, your money. In 2007 the Friends launched a fund raising campaign to raise $100,000 for the Preserve Stewardship Fund in honor of bill Cronon, the recent chair of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve committee. To learn about the progress of this campaign, see:

If you would like more information about donating to the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, contact Richard McCoy (phone: 608-233-5706 or email: rmccoy@wisc.edu).

Directions to donate:

To donate, print out the following donation box (click here for a print friendly form), or use the adobe portable document file (pdf) and fill it out.  Please make your contribution check payable to the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve. 

The Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the work of the UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve.