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The Oak Lake Field Station is used as an instructional site to support university classes, public school instruction and outreach educational programs.

Facilities include:

• A modern classroom capable of hosting class sizes of 35 or fewer students
• High-speed wireless internet
• Digital projection
• Chemical-resistant tabletops
• Computer room
• Photocopying equipment
• Monocular compound microscopes and zoom dissecting scopes are available to support laboratory activities
• A digital camera system is also available for projection of specimens

Our field library and internet service provide access to current literature, field guides, contemporary textbooks and older issues of selected environmental journals. The close proximity of field sites to the classroom and laboratory building enhances field and lab instruction.

Annual Field Station Activities:

• Annual Spring Bird Count
• K-12 Educational Outreach Programs
• Natural Resources High School Camp
• Oak Lake Field Station Field Day
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grassland Plant Identification Workshop
• Various courses in the Department of Natural Resource Management
  • Natural Resource Management Field Techniques Course (NRM 230)
  • Natural Resource Law Enforcement Techniques Course (NRM 476)