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08/28/2026

📣📣 This is an announcement 📣📣

Hello everyone! The Monarch Journey Program scheduled for tomorrow Saturday August 29, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm has been canceled due to the expected weather conditions. We will resume the Monarch Journey Program next Thursday September 3, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. We sincerely apologize and hope to see you next week.

😊We would also like thank everyone that has joined us tagging Monarch Butterflies. Our hearts are happy seeing many enjoying the outdoors here at the refuge. 😊

Photo credit and description: Six butterfly enclosures with Monarch Butterflies inside by Tucker Mills / USFWS

08/27/2026

📣📣 We still have spaces available!! 📣📣

Would you like to learn about purple loosestrife? Join Mara Lince from the Regional Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator of Golden Sands RC&D, to learn more about Wisconsin’s statewide purple loosestrife biocontrol program. During this program, you will learn about the history of purple loosestrife biocontrol in Wisconsin, how to identify both the plant and the Galerucella beetle, and how biocontrol success is monitored. Before Mara's presentation we will head out for a short hike, participants will have the opportunity to search for beetles on the refuge.
* This program will start at the Outdoor Wonders Learning Center.
*Spaces are limited and reservations are required. Please call the contact station or send us a Facebook message to reserve your spot.
📍Where: Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
🕠 When: Friday, August 28, 2026, Program begins at 5:30 pm

Photo credit and description: Purple Loosestrife by Larry Palmer / USFWS

08/26/2026

😊Happy National Dog Day 😊

Hello, Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge visitors! We are very excited to welcome you and your pups to come out and be certified as a BARK Ranger with our brand new program! The BARK Ranger program is known and operated by people throughout the US Fish and Wildlife Service at participating Wildlife Refuges, it teaches visitors how to properly look after their pets in natural spaces to ensure a safe and fun visit for you AND your pets! BARK is an acronym standing for:

🐶Bag your pet's waste
🐶Always leash your pet
🐶Respect wildlife
🐶Know where you can go

If you and your pup would like to become a BARK Ranger, head to our visitor's center starting next Wednesday and we can give you a quick intro to the program and once you've completed your tasks and taken the BARK Ranger pledge we'll give you a certificate with a pawprint stamp of your furry friend, a card to keep in your wallet to remind you of the BARK Ranger pledge, and a bandana for your pup to celebrate!

Photo credit and description: Picture #1, A BARK Ranger promotional flyer over a grassy area in front of a gravel road by Tucker Mills / USFWS. Picture #2, Dog with an orange BARK Ranger bandana by Casey Bryan / USFWS

08/24/2026

Would you like to learn about purple loosestrife? Join Mara Lince from the Regional Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator of Golden Sands RC&D, to learn more about Wisconsin’s statewide purple loosestrife biocontrol program. During this program, you will learn about the history of purple loosestrife biocontrol in Wisconsin, how to identify both the plant and the Galerucella beetle, and how biocontrol success is monitored. Before Mara's presentation we will head out for a short hike, participants will have the opportunity to search for beetles on the refuge.
* This program will start at the Outdoor Wonders Learning Center.
*Spaces are limited and reservations are required. Please call the contact station or send us a Facebook message to reserve your spot.

📍Where: Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
🕠 When: Friday, August 28, 2026, Program begins at 5:30 pm

Photo credit and description: Purple Loosestrife by Larry Palmer / USFWS

08/21/2026

Enjoy this shorebird without ever having to go to the beach!

Killdeer get their name due to their call ‘kill-deer’. Cunning and quite theatrical when trying to distract predators from a nest by displaying a "broken wing" act and luring them away from the delicate camouflaged eggs. Nests are commonly placed along roadsides with small gravel and stones as part of the placement.

Photo credit and description: Killdeer walking on a wetland by Jean Bohlinger / USFWS

08/20/2026

The North American Beaver is one of our most iconic animals (and the state mammal of Oregon and New York!), and one of our greatest "ecosystem engineers"!

Beavers build their large dams, lodges, and dwellings throughout many of our waterways, which can cause significant changes to the local environment and watershed as a result. This ability to significantly modify and alter large areas of the environment is what makes them an ecosystem engineer, and they do so by turning fast flowing rivers into still pools and wetlands, providing unique habitat for a variety of fish and birds. Their population once spanned across the entirety of North America, being ubiquitous in habitats from just south of the arctic tundra all the way to the deserts of northern Mexico, but the value of their fur lead to massive trapping and hunting efforts from early settlers. By the 1900s they were found in mostly isolated pockets, but a variety of reintroduction programs over the years have helped reintroduce them to many of the environments they once called home!

Photo credit and description: North American Beaver by Courtney Celley/USFWS

08/19/2026

🌸Wildflower Wednesday! 🌸

American White Water-lily or American Lotus? The American White Water-lily have a noticeable V-shaped notch (a deep slit at the base) on their leaves. The large, white-pinkish flower with yellow center floats on still and slow-moving waters. Bees and beetles benefit from the pollen while ducks, beaver, muskrat and deer will eat the leaves, roots, or seeds. Look for them in ponds and slow-moving water.

Photo credit and description: American White Water-lily flower blooming by Jean Bohlinger / USFWS

08/18/2026

🦋🦋Come out and help tag Monarchs!!! 🦋🦋

We are super excited about our upcoming Monarch Butterfly Program 😊 Hundreds of Monarch butterflies travel through Wisconsin each year on their way to spend the cold months of winter in Mexico. Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge is a great stopping point for these small creatures. For the upcoming weeks we will be tagging Monarch Butterflies (while tags last). Your assistance in the tagging process will help track the migration. Stop at the refuge contact station during the designated days and times to get your equipment and instructions from a Refuge Ranger, then head out to the designated field to catch Monarchs. Participants must bring back Monarchs to the Contact Station to be tagged by a Refuge Ranger.
*Nets, butterfly ID guides and butterfly cages will be provided.
*Groups of more than 6 people must call ahead to be accommodated.

📍Where: Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
🕠 When: August Thu. 20, Fri. 21, Sat. 22; August Thu. 27, Fri. 28, Sat. 29; September Thu. 3, Fri. 4, Sat. 5 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Photo credit and description: Participants walking in the prairie field looking for butterflies by Mark Bockenhauer / USFWS

08/13/2026

🦋🦋 The Monarch Butterfly is one of the most iconic and well-known species of butterfly native to North America. Every year the Monarch Butterfly population completes two migrations; one headed north in the spring, and one headed south in the late summer/early fall that spans thousands of miles! This is a multi-generational migration, with individual monarchs only completing parts of the full journey, which ranges from 1200 miles to 2800 miles spanning from mountains in central Mexico all the way to the forests of southeast Canada. 🦋 🦋

Photo credit and description: Monarch butterfly perching on a pink flower by Jean Bohlinger / USFWS

Address

W28488 Refuge Road
Trempealeau, WI
54661

Opening Hours

Wednesday	8am - 3:30pm
Thursday	8am - 3:30pm
Friday	8am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+16085392311

Website

http://www.fws.gov/refuge/trempealeau/

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