W.K. Kellogg Biological Station

KBS is a biological field station internationally recognized for research in aquatic and terrestrial ecology, evolutionary biology and sustainable agriculture. KBS consists of more than 4,000 acres of land on the shores of beautiful Gull Lake and in nearby managed and natural ecosystems. The varied habitats of KBS include forests, old fields, streams, wetlands, lakes and agricultural lands. The station includes the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, Kellogg Conference Center and Manor House, Kellogg Farm and Pasture Dairy Center, NSF-funded Long-term Ecological Research--LTER--and Agroecosystem Research--LTAR--sites, and the main field site for the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, or GLBRC. The Kellogg Manor House is the former summer estate of cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg, who began donating the lands and properties now known as KBS in the late 1920s.