Every year, students and faculty of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment (CSE) visit a different part of the country to explore its ecology and environmental issues. See what this experience is like!
Bring your sleeping bag and your sense of adventure and join CSE students and faculty on a one-day trip to our own area. You will have options for activities in our Nature Center. You will cook pizza in our wood fired outdoor oven, eat by the campfire, go on a night hike, and camp along the banks of the Kalamazoo. On Saturday, you will engage in a number of different sustainable community activities.
The schedule for your trip:
Friday, October 2nd
12:00 pm Arrive on campus and enjoy lunch on campus in Lower Baldwin (optional)
12:50 pm. Register at Bonta Admission Center (100 N. Hannah St., Albion, MI)
1:00 pm. Campus Tour with a current Albion student
2:00 pm. Admission Session
2:30 pm. Connect with the CSE department your afternoon will include the following activities:
Canoeing and discussing Kalamazoo River research done by students
Bird netting & banding and discussion Ornithology Research in the nature center
Hands-on bee keeping
Harvesting at the student farm
5:30 p.m. Set-up camp & make pizza in the outdoor wood-fired bake oven other traditional CSE trip cook stove dishes.
9:00 pm: Take a night hike, led by David Green, Nature Center Director.
Saturday, October 3rd
7:00-8:30 a.m. Breakfast in Camp
8:30 am. The rest of the morning will include the following community activities:
Tour of the Bohm Theater and discussion of its renovation
Visit to farmers market
Help with river cleanup
Other community activates as available
1:00 p.m. Please note: Participants can make arrangements with Dr. Tim Lincoln for a late arrival or an early departure. In the event of inclement weather, the camping arrangements will be adjusted to provide adequate protection.
Registration is no longer available.