As the second installment in its new speaker series, Lakes Country Public Library welcomes Douglas Buege for a July 16 presentation.
Buege will discuss northern Oconto County’s butterflies and habitats at 6 p.m. in the Zeller Community Room.
Douglas, who has a doctorate in philosophy, has been teaching in Madison since 1998. In 2008, he published “If a Tree Falls: Rediscovering the American Chestnut Tree.” His current pastime is creating original YouTube videos about Wisconsin butterflies.
As president of the Southern Wisconsin Butterfly Association (naba.org/chapters/swab) since 2013, Buege leads an annual northern Oconto County butterfly count that just completed its 11th year.
Buege has been a fixture in northern Oconto County his whole life, spending summers with his grandparents on the 120-acre farm they purchased with cash in 1963. He said those summers were the best of his childhood. As a college student, he became interested in plants, a passion that continues to fuel his work on the family farm where he “grows just about all the kinds of fruit he can keep alive.”
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