Locations

Koch Woodlands is a 2.5-acre preserve in Brown Deer with a short 0.1-mile hiking trail loop through a small woodland offering valuable habitat for migrating birds. You may see breeding Baltimore orioles, cedar waxwings, American kestrel, belted kingfishers, American toads, coyotes, and deer. Southbranch Creek, a turbid, low gradient stream over cobble, sandy silt creek bed, provides suitable habitat for the state-threatened redfin shiner. It’s a perfect wooded rest spot and birding hotspot to listen to the bubbling creek. The dominant tree canopy species was ash until 2015, when Emerald ash borer decimated much of the urban tree canopy. Through restoration, the land trust has slowly been diversifying tree canopy species and age classes. Our goal plant community is an oak woodland. Koch Woodlands is a 2.5-acre preserve in Brown Deer with a short 0.1-mile hiking trail loop through a small woodland offering valuable habitat for migrating birds. You may see breeding Baltimore orioles, cedar waxwings, American kestrel, belted kingfishers, American toads, coyotes, and deer. Southbranch Creek, a turbid, low gradient stream over cobble, sandy silt creek bed, provides suitable habitat for the state-threatened redfin shiner. It’s a perfect wooded rest spot and birding hotspot to listen to the bubbling creek. The dominant tree canopy species was ash until 2015, when Emerald ash borer decimated much of the urban tree canopy. Through restoration, the land trust has slowly been diversifying tree canopy species and age classes. Our goal plant community is an oak woodland.