What's on it
A bur oak older than the university, a row of American elms that survived Dutch elm disease, the Millrace restoration's native plantings, and a handful of specimens the forestry program uses for teaching — each with a marker and a stop on the map.
Why it exists
It's a grounds-crew and forestry-program project that doubles as a quiet thing to do on a nice afternoon, and it makes the case for the tree-canopy line in the campus sustainability commitments concrete.
In and around Porter Falls
Porter Falls sits on the Porter River, and the university's sustainability commitments are mostly about water and heat: the Millrace restoration, rain gardens, and fourteen buildings surviving a Wesconsin winter as efficiently as possible.
The practical details
Route: About 1.5 miles, starting at Founders Hall. Guide: A map with numbered stops, in print at the library and on MyPorter. Tagged: Each tour tree carries a small marker with its species and, for the older ones, its planting year. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of Sustainability (Founders Union, Room 015). Call (715) 555–0240 or email sustainability@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.