• Our Shared
    Ecological
    Environment

    Join us in the enjoyment, preservation and sustainable use of our natural resources

    View Events Calendar
    Welty Environmental Center - Spring
Our Programs

Public Programs

Welty Public Programs

NATC Programming

Scouts and Other Programs

Teachers & Schools

Support Us

  • Join Our Volunteers

    Consider joining our community of volunteers working together for our kids, our community and our environment.

  • Friends of Welty Membership

    Your membership is key in supporting our mission and public programs for the community. We also offer you special access and privileges reserved just for our supporting members.

  • Support Welty With Your Donation

    Your financial support for what we do affirms our mission and allows us to do what we do for the kids, the community and our local environment.
    Think globally. Act locally.

  • Business & Corporate Sponsorship

    The mission of the Welty Environmental Center is one which many local businesses can identify with, include values we hold in common, would like to affiliate with and support.  We couldn’t do it without your support.
    Thank you!

Join Us

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Men have become the tools of their tools It‘s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreu

About Us

The Welty Environmental Center offers year-round programs for all ages. Notices of activities are published here on our website, our Facebook page as well as our periodic newsletter, The Warbler, available via email or regular mail.

The center is a place where both children and adults can gain hands-on encounters with biological, physical, and chemical elements of nature. It provides a challenge to its users to relate concepts of the natural and social sciences and humanities to environmental, ecological, and related social concerns. Our programs stimulate interest in local, regional, and global environmental issues.

Staff / Board / Volunteers

The Welty Warbler

Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Summer 2016
Spring 2016
Fall 2015

News Blog

Summer Camps and Activities 2017

This summer, let your children find the explorer within, by joining us for fun activities and adventures at Big Hill Park during Welty Wednesdays, Fun Fridays or one of our week-long day camps.

Subscribe To Get Updates

Find Us On Facebook

Carl Welty

Carl Welty | Beloit CollegeInternationally known as an expert on ornithology, one would have to look to John Audubon or Roger Tory Peterson to find another who has had more impact on bird study than Carl Welty.

Welty joined the Beloit College, Wisconsin, biology department in 1934. After a few years, he became disappointed in the lack of a current biology text on birds, so took on the job of research and wrote a book himself. Titled Life of Birds, it became the most widely used college textbook on ornithology in the United States and went through several revisions.

At their rural home in Turtle Township, Wisconsin, the Weltys established a wildlife refuge which was used as a learning center for students.

Learn More
Maps were disabled by the visitor on this site.

Welty Environmental Center
Big Hill Park

1201 Big Hill Court

Beloit WI  53511
608-361-1377

Center Hours: 8:30 am – 4:30 am
Park Hours: 5 am – 10 pm