Arb News

Beginning Monday, July 27, work will begin on a project designed to rehabilitate two bridges along the paved trail in Carleton’s Cowling Arboretum. The work on the bridges, located in the “Upper Arb,” will stabilize and repair the bridge foots, repair cracks in the walls and underneath each bridge, and replace the concrete caps. Several trees at each bridge will need to be removed to facilitate construction and to maintain the integrity of the bridges. The paved surface of the trail will also be replaced at each bridge. The project is expected to reach completion by August 28.

Check out two new Carleton Digital Collections – Dime Novels and Cowling Arboretum.

Carleton has received a $10,000 grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation to fund its “Natural Science in Natural Lands: Improving the Carleton Arboretum” project. The grant will fund the College’s new project, which will heighten the educational and recreational value of the Cowling Arboretum. The grant will help provide training for Arboretum staff on state-of-the-art restoration methods, will increase opportunities to participate in restoration activities for everyone on campus and in Northfield, and provide new signs to help visitors enjoy the Arboretum.

Carleton invites members of the community to participate in a volunteer work event to remove invasive buckthorn and honeysuckle in the College’s Cowling Arboretum on Saturday, April 18. Volunteers will meet on the paved trail at the bridge over Spring Creek, just off the intersection of Oak and Second Streets at 9 a.m.

New for 2009 – Arboretum Bird Checklist. Just in time for spring migration, we are happy to provide a checklist for the birds of the Carleton College Arboretum …

Volunteer work day to help restore the forests of the Upper Arboretum by removing invasive buckthorn and honeysuckle.

A recent visitor to the Carleton College made Arboretum staff take notice. Not for any particular celebrity status, but that the visitor had been absent for 78 years!  Owen McMurtrey ‘12 spotted the long lost visitor recently and rushed back to campus to report his find to the Minnesota Ornithological Union – the organization that tracks bird sightings in the state.

Details regarding the Fall Mushroom Field Trip.

Arboretum Volunteer Work Day, Saturday, October 18, 9:00 a.m. – 12 noon.

The public is invited to participate in a special mushroom hunting field trip on Saturday, Oct. 25 beginning at 9 a.m. in the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum. Led by arboretum director Nancy Braker and library technology coordinator Eric Hinsdale, participants can enjoy the splendid fall foliage in the arboretum and search for some of the lesser-known inhabitants of the arboretum—mushrooms. Fungi of all shapes and sizes and varieties will be uncovered during a gentle two-hour hike over primarily gravel or grass trails, with occasional forays off trail for observations. The field trip is free and open to the public.