Private residential landowners overwhelmingly see the trees on their properties as beneficial, according to the results of the recent Wisconsin Urban Landowner Survey. Beauty, shade […]

This podcast was originally published in April 2014. Phil Townsend, Professor Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences ptownsend@wisc.edu […]

Diverging from centuries of established behavioral norms, red fox and coyote have gone against their wild instincts and learned to coexist in the urban environment […]

Reproduction among bald eagles in a remote national park in Minnesota was aided when their nests were protected from human disturbance, according to a study […]

Since the 1960s, tens of thousands of birds living on the Great Lakes have died during periodic outbreaks of botulism. The outbreaks have only become […]

Forty-five years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release. “The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in […]

The Midwest School for Beginning Apple Growers, a three-day workshop for people wanting to start an orchard business, will be offered March 16-18 on the […]

On a mild spring day in 1980, a handful of men gathered on the sprawling lawn of England’s Windsor Castle, there to do a little […]

Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species’ habitat. But […]

When David Spooner’s elementary school teacher assigned the class to collect leaves, she didn’t tell the students the names of the trees. That didn’t sit well with […]