The Dahlem Environmental Education Center

10/10/2026

Register online at DahlemCenter.org to reserve your guided tour spot. Time slots are filling so don't wait and miss the entertainment and fun!

10/10/2026

10/08/2026

Thank you JTV for hosting Hannah Schauer and Carrie Benham on the Bart Hawley Show. Dahlem has a busy October schedule filled with the Goblin Walks -- Oct 23 & 24, 2026, Volunteer to Carve Pumpkins on Oct 22 & 23, Survival Day at Dahlem - Oct 10th, new exhibit open house and gift shop is open this coming Saturday, plus throughout the month we are hosting plenty of school field trips. Life is grand and exciting!
Register online at DahlemCenter.org

Airdate: October 6th, 2026 Northwest October Update with Geoff BontragerOctober 6, 2026UM Astronomy Asst. Professor Dr. Teresa Paneque-Carreño Speaking at Jackson Community EventsOctober 6, 2026disAbility Connections “The Inclusion Event” This SaturdayOctober 6, 2026Candidate for 12th District ...

10/05/2026

Thank you to wonderful volunteers and staff for putting in a few morning hours on Saturday October 3rd Betty's Fall Workbee event. We appreciate YOU and all you do for Dahlem! The weather was perfect, too.

10/05/2026

Fallen autumn leaves provide essential winter survival habitat for a vast array of species including firefly larvae, salamanders, frogs, snakes, shrews, toads, box turtles, earthworms, millipedes, pill bugs, springtails, mites, lacewing larvae, soldier beetle larvae, caterpillars and pupae of countless moths and butterflies, overwintering queen bumblebees, and birds like towhees and sparrows that forage for insects within the leaf litter.
Leaves are life, leave the leaves this autumn!

10/02/2026

Hey, we have plenty of great volunteer opportunities available this Saturday October 3rd Betty's Fall Workbee - Oct. 3rd. Also volunteer for Pumpkin Carving for Goblin Walks October 22 & 23 and volunteer for Goblin Walks -- Oct 23 & 24, 2026.
Easy to sign up online at DahlemCenter.org

The Dahlem Conservancy is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that manages and funds the John and Mary Dahlem Environmental Education Center.

09/28/2026

Dahlem is sending out a special Thank You to the Jackson Art Association (JAA) for including our beautiful grounds in Paint Jackson Day! We love artists, and we love to partner with community organizations! Ask to partner with us!

09/26/2026

Send them on their incredible journey to central Mexico! Let them fly free and continue their amazing generational life cycle. Populations have drastically decreased over the years to the point of being listed on the Endangered Species list. It's a deep tragedy to us all. It's time to step up to bring back these iconic butterflies. Provide flower gardens along their migration route, plant milkweed, stop using chemicals on plants and insects, etc. Education is key to help ensure the iconic Monarch Butterflies survives many more generations. Teach best practices to all age groups and know that your actions make an impact. 🐛🐛🦋🦋❤️❤️

The monarchs of summer lived a few weeks each — born, bred, gone, a new one every generation. The one flying now is different. It won't breed this fall. It will fly.

This is the super generation. It will live for months instead of weeks, ride the wind south, and reach a small cluster of fir forests in the mountains of central Mexico it has never seen — the same forests its great-great-grandparents left in spring.

How it finds them isn't fully understood. It carries the map in its body.

🌿 What helps it leave strong
Leave the last flowers standing — asters, goldenrod, anything still blooming is a fuel stop. One late nectar meal can be the difference on a journey this long.

Four short-lived generations to come north. One remarkable generation to get all the way home.