Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on July 28, 2011
Kids at work: Contractor uses goats to clear hillside
The School of Human Ecology building project on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus attracted numerous visitors this week, as contractor J.P. Cullen & Sons used […]
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Posted on July 11, 2011
Landscape change leads to increased insecticide use in the Midwest
The continued growth of cropland and loss of natural habitat have increasingly simplified agricultural landscapes in the Midwest. A Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) […]
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Posted on July 7, 2011
Old and new insect pests begin bugging Wisconsin
The mosquitoes are back, the Japanese beetles are starting to devour the 300 species of plants they call “food,” and a flock of invasive insects […]
- Posted on June 9, 2011
- Posted on June 6, 2011
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Posted on June 2, 2011
Livestock risks from Wisconsin wolves localized, predictable
It’s an issue that crops up wherever humans and big predators — wolves, bears, lions — coexist. “It’s just hard to live alongside large carnivores. […]
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Posted on May 31, 2011
Unique cooperative class gets national view of popular conservation technique
Using a national approach to studying a complex question of environmental policy, Adena Rissman, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of […]
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Posted on May 13, 2011
Changes ahead for Wisconsin’s Managed Forest Law program
Proposed changes to Wisconsin’s Managed Forest Law (MFL) are moving to the legislature for consideration and possible enactment based on recommendations from a special committee […]
- Posted on May 9, 2011
- Posted on May 6, 2011