Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on May 1, 2014
Foxes among Badgers: A family of foxes makes its home on campus
There are foxes on campus. Big ones and little ones, a new family that started this spring. At sunset you might see as many as […]
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Posted on April 16, 2014
Searching for coyotes and foxes amongst the Badgers
When most students talk about the wild life at the UW-Madison, they talk about State St., Camp Randall and the Badgers. When Holly Hovanec talks […]
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Posted on April 14, 2014
Five things everyone should know about… sinkholes
1. They exist in Wisconsin. Parts of the Badger State have bedrock consisting of dolomite, an easily fractured rock that can be dissolved by water seeping down […]
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Posted on April 8, 2014
Science on Tap sparks UW, Northwoods dialogue
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are highlighting the university’s impact more than 200 miles away from campus through a series of conversations involving community members on […]
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Posted on March 24, 2014
Goodbye, bug guy
For 35 years Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist with CALS and UW-Extension, has provided patient counsel to a bug-plagued populace on everything from bedbugs to lice […]
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Posted on March 14, 2014
Assessing runoff risk – Audio
/RSS FeedRisk assessment tool aids manure management Laura Good, Associate Scientist Department of Soil Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences lwgood@wisc.edu Phone (608) 262-9894 […]
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Posted on March 11, 2014
Paradigm shifts, great discoveries and shining moments
In honor of the CALS Quasquicentennial, the cover story in the new issue of Grow magazine includes accounts of a dozen paradigm shifts, great discoveries and shining […]
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Posted on March 7, 2014
March 28 Wisconsin Nitrogen Science Summit will address environmental and health concerns
Concern about excess nitrogen getting into the state’s waterways and drinking water is the impetus for a Nitrogen Science Summit being convened on March 28 on the University of […]
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New focus on nitrogen – Audio
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New Focus on Nitrogen Ken Genskow, Associate Professor Department of Urban and Regional Planning UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Phone: (608) 262-8756 kgenskow@wisc.edu […]
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Posted on March 5, 2014
Stanley Temple on de-extinction: Will dead species live again?
Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in forest and wildlife ecology at CALS and a former chair of the conservation biology […]
