The BIG EVENT auction and dinner is your opportunity to join members and friends for a gala evening and provide financial support for this unique place.

We depend on your generous support of our silent and live auctions, raffle and fund-a-wish to help us reach our goal. 

Items include

• get-aways to Door County, Colorado and Arizona;
• sporting tickets to Brewers and Badgers;
• artwork,
• garden and home decor;
• box office tickets to premier movie showings and live music;
• fine jewelry;
• kids items;
• Zumba and Yoga packages;
• and so much more!

The selection by a wide array of donors and sponsors is amazing, overwhelming and wonderful!

This year's Fund-A-Wish is in support of Citizen Science. The Center is the go-to place for Northwoods monitoring efforts. Did you know we annually monitor the natural world, and train citizen volunteers to collect data on birds, bats, butterflies, wolves, raptors, loons, frogs, toads and salamanders and on lake levels, water quality, and invasive species?? Staff and volunteers carry out surveys and collect data and we then report the data to state and tribal agencies. 

It is truly our wish that you will fund-a-wish, and allow us to give the time and resources needed to carry out this important work and citizen engagement.

Thank you to our premier Big Event Sponsors:

Signature Sponsor: Thrivent Financial Services, Arbor Vitae

Partner Sponsors:

ACE Hardware, Woodruff
Ann Swift & Associates, Arbor Vitae
Chequamegon Adventure Co., Minocqua
Merrill Lynch, Minocqua
The Wine Barn
Trig's Cellar 70