Lake Ledge Portfolio| Rooted in Interpretive Best Practice
Providing meaningful exhibit design, immersive guided experiences and innovative curriculum

We are a small company with diverse interests and experience, assisting clients at a very high level.
Below are a few projects that highlight those interests and our diverse scope of service. Contact Us for more information.

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Featured  Project | Trail
 Newport State Park, Wisconsin

Interpretive Development | Project Management |
Lake Ledge Naturalist

Interpretive Statement
Fern Trail provides all abilities the opportunity to explore and connect with the natural world through interpretive panels that build awareness and understanding of the critical landscapes and rich natural history of the Door peninsula.

Project Description
The accessible trail includes seven interpretive panels designed to engage a broad spectrum of learners and abilities. Each exhibit highlights audio interpretation, rich illustration, guided imagery and tactile elements.

Audio Description and enrichment audio is provided for each panel 
Audio includes bird song, first person narrative, sound effects and music. Visitors activate audio by using a sound enabled brochure or by touching the audio pen to the panel.

FERN TRAIL | from concept to installation
 a Lake Ledge Naturalist project

Lake Ledge managed the project, developed themes, secured funding, wrote panel content, directed art and illustration, provided photography and audio scripting and audio description content. Lake Ledge commissioned many talented artists and fabricators to create custom illustrations, tactiles, voice and audio description. To learn more read this article 

If you would like Lake Ledge to manage your next project,
large or small, contact us .

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Projects In Progress

Elements of the Lake Ledge Portfolio

Below are a few examples of the diversity and range of service Lake Ledge provides.If you have an interpretive concept or educational request you would like to discuss that is not represented here, contact Lake Ledge. A full curriculum vitae is available upon request of service.

Interests and Scope of Service

Guided Hikes
Workshops
Professional Development
Project Coordination
Content Development
Exhibit Design
Accessible Trails

Interpretive Planning
Audio Tour Production
Audio DescriptionScriptwriting
Fabrication Support
Research and Technical
Writing Copywriting
Biological field work

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Educational Outreach

Wisconsin DNR Fisheries -Mukwonago River Watershed Poster and Lessons (PDF) species research, poster content and lesson development by Lake Ledge

Wisconsin DNR | Besadny Fishery Facility
Teachers Guide

Workshops | Courses

Instructor | UW- Green Bay
Teaching a new graduate course for educators
Citizen Science in the Classroom -
Engaging Students in Authentic Scientific Research

LERN PROJECT 
Lakeshore Environmental Resource Network |LERN|Developed and implemented the project and a regional needs assessment for science educators. Created graduate level courses and a resource library to meet the identified needs.

Instructor of Biology
University of Stevens Point and Kewaunee High School
Taught lecture, laboratory and summer field courses

Writing|Publications

Van Hook, Williams, Brower, Borkin, and Hein. A standardized protocol for ruler-based wing length measurement in monarch butterflies, (Danaus plexippus L.Nymphalidae, Danainae) Tropical Lepidoptera Research 2012.

Hein, J.M. Lipid Content and Wing Wear in Danaus plexippus Returning to Northeast Wisconsin in June, 1985-2006.

Hein, J.M. The Hine's Emerald Dragonfly rare gem of wetland and meadow USFWS Outreach Brochure

Hein, J.M. Emerald-eyed dragons. Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine (Aug.) p13-16

Hein, J.M. Besadny Fisheries Facility curriculum guide Pub # FH759 WDNR 

A Hine's emerald dragonfly. A green marker attached with a special lightweight adhesive carries a code number to identify this individual.

Interpretive Consulting

Forest Exploration Center | Interpretive and Trails Plan
  for the Miwlaukee County Grounds Forest Site

Sister Bay Historical Society
Implementation of audio interpretation project

Oklahoma City Zoo
Audio interpretation project

Wisconsin DNR |  
Wild Rose Hatchery: Development of interactive fishing exhibit and panel content development
Besadny Fishery Facility: Guided Audio Tour content development, voicing and production

The Racine Zoo
Animal Identification signs:

Eastern Black Rhino ID sign

Masai Giraffe ID Sign

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Innovative

 Forest Exploration Center | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 Developed Badge Earning Forestry Curriculum for the University Lab School.
Created the Capitol Campaign interactive audio posters and casebook pro forma. Lake Ledge wrote, voiced and produced the audio content and developed poster content and casebook.

Accessible

Fern Trail
Newport State Park

Fun

Into The Outdoors
TV for kids Wrote, developed and appeared in three episodes:"It's a bugs world", "The Stream of Life" and “Backpack Camping”.

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Workgroups | Presentations

Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability
Conference presenter

National Association of Interpretation |NAI|
Conference presenter

Monarch Population Dynamics (PDF)
Workgroup participant, policy analysis

Hines Emerald Dragonfly Recovery Plan
Outreach assistance to the USFWS

LEAF Conceptual Framework Guide
Scope and Sequence Reviewer, forest education concepts

Project Collaboration

We will work with you from concept to completion or offer coordination, content and consulting as needed.  We understand  budgets, grant writing and working with limited resources and we will always be as efficient and creative in the use of your time and budget as we are with our own. 

We collaborate with colleagues in the sciences and the arts to provide indepth content, courses and programming across a diversity of subjects and interests.