APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – Work is close to wrapping up on a $5.5-million dollar environmental center.
The ‘Lodge’ will be at Appleton’s Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve.
It’s being built with sustainable products, including pieces of the old center.
Executive Director Randy Tuma says space constraints at the old facility forced them to turn away some of the thousands of kids who take field trips there each year.
“With this new facility, we will have the space, we will have the capacity, and we will be hiring new staff to accommodate these needs.”
The preserve has also unveiled design plans for what it calls ‘one of the largest and most-advanced microgrids in the Midwest.’ It will power the nature center and the entire nature preserve.
