FNPCW Collaborates with Northland College Class
Eleven students from Professor Tom Mackey's Northland College Interpretive Methods class visited Beaver Hollow and viewed and evaluated the current site signage.
Planting Trees in 2024
The forests surrounding North Pikes Creek are faced with the multiple challenges of a warming climate and an imminent invasive pest infestation. The FNPCW organization is working proactively to address these challenges, and to help our forests remain healthy and continue to provide homes for wildlife.
Wearing White out of Season
It’s not easy being a snowshoe hare. They make a tasty meal for a lot of predators at Beaver Hollow, including great horned owls, goshawks, foxes, coyotes and wolves.
Beavers Prepare for Winter
All fall, the beaver worked industriously to cut aspen, willow, alder, and red-osier dogwood for their winter food store.
Ash Forest Transition Tree Planting Project
The FNPCW is undertaking a 5-year transition of our black ash-dominated wetland forest to native trees that are projected to fare well in a warming climate. The wetland forests surrounding North Pikes Creek and its headwaters are facing the dual challenges of an Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) infestation of black ash trees, and a future warmer, drier climate.
Round up for the Friends at the Chequamegon Food Co-op
We're the August Round for Partners organization! The Chequamegon Co-op's Round for Partners program gives shoppers an opportunity to round-up to the next whole dollar when checking out. The round-up proceeds will be donated directly to the Friends to help…
The Friends partner with SRWA for water temperature monitoring
Temperature monitoring effort in partnership with the Superior Rivers Watershed Association (SRWA) The Friends have been working with SRWA since 2016 to monitor the water temperature at North Pikes Creek at three locations - in a beaver pond, and in…
Outdoors for All
Beaver Hollow is welcoming, inclusive, safe, and accessible for everybody. In July of each year, America celebrates the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Friends organization believes that a lack of accessibility should not be a barrier to…
Lost No More
Beaver Hollow highway signs installed! Many visitors to Beaver Hollow have driven past the turnoff to Compton Road from Highway 13. It's easy to miss. The Compton Road sign is hard to see. Adding to the confusion, the road north of…
New Interpretive Signs Installed
Walk the boardwalk and the Leopold Loop trail at Beaver Hollow and see the new interpretive signs! The Friends organization was pleased to receive a generous grant from the Biodiversity Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation. This funding…