A partnership between UW-Madison researchers, state potato growers, the World Wildlife Fund and the International Crane Foundation that has reduced industry reliance on toxic pesticides and enhanced farm profitability has been recognized with the United States Department of Agriculture’s prestigious Secretary’s Honor Award for Maintaining and Enhancing the Nation’s Natural Resources and Environment.

Washington, DC – A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund, Wisconsin potato growers, and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers is being recognized today as a recipient of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prestigious

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have received a $2.4 million Department of Defense grant to study the behavior and persistence in soils of the agent believed to cause chronic wasting disease, and to determine CWD’s potential for spreading to other species.

Therese Gripentrog was so impressed with the expansive and varied landscape of her high school, JFK Prep in St. Nazianz, that she pursued a career in landscape architecture. Now she helps others enjoy their surroundings as a regional landscape architect with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

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When Tara Edblom graduated from high school in Plum City, she was interested in everything from archeology to sports medicine. But a cousin who remembered her early fascination with earthworms, predicted she would have a career in natural resources. He was right. Today, she is an environmental toxicologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Doug Maxwell, emeritus professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won this year”s Chair”s Award for Scientific Excellence from the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

Wildlife ecologist Nancy Mathews admits she had a few anxious moments last November. As part of a chronic wasting disease study, Mathews had dozens of deer traps set in two areas of the CWD

The tenth annual Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference,

We may never know how chronic wasting disease got into Wisconsin’s wild deer herd, but we’re going to get a better idea of how the disease could move across the state’s farm and forest landscapes.