What’s Happening at Crossroads

We are well into meteorological spring, and this week we celebrate the Vernal Equinox, the astronomical first day of spring. While spring green-up and wildflowers are still weeks away, at…

This week, Crossroads at Big Creek hosts the final program in the Fish Tales Lecture Series, featuring one of our favorite presenters, Dr. Dan Isermann. His topic — “Movement and…

Although Aldo Leopold Day is a state observance in Wisconsin, it’s not the kind of holiday when schools and businesses close and staff receive holiday pay. Here at Crossroads, however,…

Lee Kernen pictured “Holding First Coho 1969” Crossroads at Big Creek is honored to host Lee Kernen for a very special Fish Tales Lecture titled, “How Did Pacific Salmon Find…

At Crossroads, we’ve been experiencing a bit of weather whiplash this winter — thaw one day, sleet rattling the windows the next. In Door County, that’s hardly surprising. In fact,…

We at Crossroads are well into our Fish Tales Lecture Series and plans already are underway for educational events tied to the annual fish migration. But for now, we pause—because…

Walleyes are the topic for our next Fish Tales Lecture, scheduled for Thursday, February 12 at 7:00 pm. Dr. Jason Breeggemann, Senior Fisheries Biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural…

This week, we will celebrate Groundhog Day at Crossroads as part of our Science Saturday program. But why do we celebrate a rodent and its shadow on February 2? “Groundhog…

Thanks to recent precipitation of every kind and several mid-winter thaws, we once again have flowing water in The Cove Estuary and the lower reaches of Big Creek. Seeing open…

It’s a time for adapting at Crossroads—we are adapting to short days and long nights, sudden shifts in weather, and the presence or absence of snow and ice. Even so,…