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What to Do at ICF
Take a Tour
Guided public tours are offered daily at 10:00 a.m., 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. Memorial Day through Labor Day, and on weekends in April, May, September and October. Self-guided recorded tours are also available at the Visitor Center.
Exhibit Area
See the world’s most complete collection of cranes at the Johnson Exhibit Pod, the Amoco Whooping Crane Exhibit, and the Wattled Crane Exhibit. At the Amoco Whooping Crane Exhibit, visitors can see these rarest of cranes within the beautiful setting of a simulated Wisconsin wetland. Interactive exhibits and a short film tell the story of the Whooping Crane.
Restoration Overlook
View the rich diversity of the Wisconsin landscape from shaded benches. Mounted binoculars allow a closer look at our off-exhibit crane breeding complex, Crane City.
Art Exhibit
Graceful and majestic, cranes have inspired artists for centuries. ICF's gallery features art created by children from around the world as part of ICF's Children's International Art Exchange and exhibits some of the finest in contemporary wildlife art.
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Family Education Center and the Felburn Interpretive Room
This new center provides a focal point for exploring the important relationships between cranes and people. Visitors can directly control and move a high definition television monitor connected to a pan and tilt camera to view costumed care takers rearing Whooping Crane chicks for release into the wild. Other exhibits explain how ICF provides educational opportunities, builds partnerships, and uses poverty alleviation to address conservation challenges facing communities living with cranes. The center also houses a map of the flyways of the world’s cranes and small video theater.
Nature Trails
To protect cranes, we must preserve and restore the natural communities on which cranes depend. Our site features over 100 acres of restored wetland, prairie and oak savanna. Visitors are welcome to explore the four nature trails that wind through these communities. Self-guided adult and children’s trail tapes are available free at the Visitor Center.
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