UW-Platteville to Host Sugarbush Event

University of Wisconsin-Platteville will host an event next week to open the maple sugar season. Students and faculty from the university’s environmental science and society and history programs have helped establish a sugarbush at Platte Mound over the past several years, tapping maple trees to boil for maple syrup and sugar. On Wednesday (Feb. 28), the university will mark the start of the sugarbush season with events open to the campus and community. A university event posting states Jon Greendeer, current president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, will deliver a public lecture on land and Indigenous knowledge at 11 a.m. Feb. 28 in Nohr Gallery in Ullsvik Hall. UW-P then will lead a sugarbush opening event at 2:30 p.m. at Platte Mound.