COMMUNITY: Aldo Leopold Festival
June 1, 2022 - June 5, 2022
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Les Cheneaux welcomes you to celebrate the legacy of Aldo Leopold — one of America’s most influential naturalists — during our festival, June 1st – June 5th, 2022. Activities include paddling excursions, orchid and wildflower tours, guided birding trips, presentations, and many other nature-based activities. Experience the woods and water that formed Leopold’s early impressions of the natural world as we honor the mark he made on conservation and the environment.
Festival Pass is $45 per adult. Youth 17 and under are free to attend! The festival pass includes access to over 70 workshops, lectures, guided nature walks and paddles, and more. Pre-registration is required.
NEW for 2022 – Adventure Day Trips
This year we have scheduled 9 full-day and one half day adventure tour to our offerings. All trips are hosted on the opening day of the festival, Wednesday, June 1st.
– Whitefish Point Birding Trip
– Vermillion Point’s Piping Plover
– A Day in “da Woods”
– LSSU’s Freshwater Research Facility Tour and Forestry Hike
– Les Cheneaux Geology Tour
– Straits of Mackinac Birding Tour
– Leopold Preserve Trail Maintenance
– Become a Smartphone Photography Genius
– Coffee, Boats, Hikes, and Hops
– Exploring Drummond Island’s Maxton Plains Alvar
Trips have an additional fee. Lunch is provided on full-day trips. For complete details about the Adventure Day Trips, visit https://www.aldoleopoldfestival.org/adventure-day-trips/.
This event was submitted to our community calendar page by an outside organizer and is not a Michigan Audubon event. If you have questions, please reach out to the event organizers or the contact information provided in the event description.
