Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on March 16, 2018
More homes built near wild lands leading to greater wildfire risk, says study led by Volker Radeloff
More than 10 million acres burned across the country during the 2017 U.S. wildfire season at a cost of more than $2 billion — the […]
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Posted on February 22, 2018
GreenHouse program coordinator blends sustainability, student life
Teaching about agriculture and sustainability during semesters filled with classes and tests is hard enough. It’s even harder when most students are gone for the […]
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Posted on February 20, 2018
Survey finds urban trees well-loved by private residential landowners
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 […]
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Posted on February 9, 2018
Snapshot Wisconsin – Audio
/RSS FeedThis 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 […]
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Posted on January 30, 2018
Urban foxes and coyotes learn to set aside their differences and coexist
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 […]
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Posted on January 26, 2018
Scouting the eagles: Proof that protecting nests aids reproduction
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 […]
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Posted on January 16, 2018
Lake Michigan waterfowl botulism deaths linked to warm waters, algae
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 […]
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Posted on January 12, 2018
UW–Madison professor led fight to ban pesticide DDT 45 years ago
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 […]
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Posted on January 10, 2018
School for Beginning Apple Growers offered in March
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 […]
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Posted on January 2, 2018
Saving an American icon in England
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 […]