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Home base for the University’s weeklong Wildlife Camps is Macbride Nature Recreation Area, 450 acres located north of Iowa City and managed by UI Recreational Services. The area offers the perfect outdoor resource for kids—and adults!—to experience their natural world.
Games and team-building activities are part of the itinerary at the UI Wildlife Camps, where the camper-counselor ratio is 8:1.
Archery is among the many activities enjoyed by participants in the UI Wildlife Camps.
A favorite pastime of UI Wildlife Camp participants is canoeing.
Participants in the UI Wildlife Camps learn to fish and track mammals.
Identifying edible berries is just one of the skills picked up by participants in the UI Wildlife Camps.
Participants in the UI Wildlife Camps learn to cook outdoors, such as making mulberry and gooseberry jam over a fire.
UI Wildlife Camp participants use a web of ropes to pull themselves across a pond to net turtles and frogs for study (and, later, release).
Campers gain an appreciation for the beauty and diversity of the natural world through a number of hands-on activities.
Participants in the UI Wildlife Camps learn skills to help them survive in the wild.
Bird banding and art are among the activities enjoyed by participants in the UI Wildlife Camps.
A rope-making activity gives everyone in the UI Wildlife Camps a chance to participate.
A rope-making activity gives everyone in the UI Wildlife Camps a chance to participate.
Campers use newly created rope for limbo dancing and jumping rope while they wait for their buses to take them home.
Artwork is encouraged at the UI Wildlife Camps. Perhaps there is a young Audubon in our midst?
Participants in the UI Wildlife Camps learn about gardening and composting.
The University has been teaching kids about nature through the UI Wildlife Camps since 1985.
The UI Wildlife Camps blend environmental education with outdoor recreation—even filling waters bottles on a hot day becomes a fun activity.
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