UWGB Native Planting Input

In keeping with UW-Green Bay's legacy as Eco-U, the UWGB Grounds Department is partnering with the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity to maintain and expand native planting across campus. There are numerous benefits, including:
  • providing food and habitat for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife; increasing biodiversity
  • filtering stormwater and improving water quality
  • reducing fertilizer, pesticide, and diesel use
  • freeing up landscaping crews to work on beautification projects rather than mowing lawn

In the past few years, the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity established restoration plantings at Shorewood Park.

In the coming years, the Grounds Department intends to convert a swath of lawn southwest of the main entrance drive (where the former disc golf course was) to native plants, and to install native plants in one of the "people pocket" gardens on the west side of the Environmental Science Building (seen through the tunnel windows). 

We are seeking input to identify additional areas across campus that could benefit from converting portions of lawn to native plantings over the next decade. This could include expanding the edges of existing native plantings (thus reducing the lawn at the edges), or converting a small portion or entire section of lawn to natives.