The America's Outdoors center is a partnership of the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. It serves the metropolitan Milwaukee area and is dedicated to promoting an ethic of stewardship for the natural world and fostering an appreciation of our natural and cultural resources through education, conservation and recreation:
Education: Understanding the environment and the complex relationship among all living things, including people, can ensure a better quality of life for ourselves and future generations. America's Outdoors has a variety of programs and education and reference materials for learning about the natural environment.
Environmental Education: Forest Service Intern at YMCA site
Conservation: People everywhere are finding ways to preserve special places. America’s Outdoors and the National Park Service Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance program help communities protect the resources they value without involving federal ownership or management. Local residents decide what they want their project to accomplish and the National Park Service provides help with technical issues that might otherwise keep a local effort from succeeding.
Reference Materials Available from America's Outdoors
Recreation: America’s Outdoors features Wisconsin recreation areas administered by the federal government as well as information for federal lands across the United States. The Center has brochures and maps that describe services at many of these areas so you can better plan your next visit to federal lands. Maps of Forest Service lands in the eastern United States are also available.
THE URBAN TREEHOUSE AT LYNDEN HILL
On September 25, 1999, the Urban Treehouse site was dedicated at Lynden Hill in the Midtown neighborhood of Milwaukee. Since then, and in partnership with a number of local organizations, America’s Outdoors worked to develop a master plan for this beautiful three acre site. Today, neighborhood residents and visitors are greeted with a natural wood entry gateway, a stone amphitheater, a native plants mound and a council ring where Forest Service environmental education interns and our partner Neighborhood House convene their many outdoor education sessions with local children.
Smokey at Lynden Hill, Milwaukee,
Hiking at Lynden Hill Milwaukee, WI
Ribbon Cutting at Lynden Hill, Urban Tree House, Milwaukee, WI
For more information contact America’s Outdoors at 414-297-3693.
Additional photos of outreach by America's Outdoors to urban population in the Milwaukee WI area
Kids Playing on a Log
Tree Planting at Lynden Hill, Milwaukee, WI
Planting a Butterfly Garden, Lynden Hill, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kid planting at Lynden Hill, Milwaukee, WIsconsin
Kids making peanut butter and pine cone bird feeders at Lynden Hill, Milwaukee, WI
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