Registration is now open for a four-day fishing course designed for people who want to gain a greater appreciation of aquatic resources around them, and improve their ability to catch fish.

Researchers are turning to microbes for help with some of our biggest problems. The results could lead to a healthier environment and new sources of fuels and chemicals for the 21st century.

Every fall thousands of Americans head for the woods to see summer extinguished in a blaze of color. In Wisconsin they celebrate Colorama. In New England the visitors are called

Herbert F. Behnke of Shawano, Roger and Bill Borgwardt of Valders, Guy Gottschalk of Wisconsin Rapids, and Lloyd A. Holterman of Watertown will receive Honorary Recognition awards Nov. 1 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (LTC), will assist the Sahelian countries of Africa in their sustainable development and natural resource management efforts. The Sahel region includes Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal.

Holstein steers can pack on the pounds grazing kura clover/grass pastures, trials at the UW-Madison’s Lancaster Agricultural Research Station have shown. Steers grazing kura clover/grass outperformed those on red clover/grass, and far surpassed gains on alfalfa/grass reported in earlier studies at Lancaster. The kura clover-based pastures had no problems handling intensive grazing pressure, according to researchers at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

If you’re supplementing phosphorus in a typical Wisconsin dairy diet, you’re probably feeding too much of the mineral. Cutting back on supplementation won’t hurt production or herd health, and you’ll be doing a favor for water quality, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center.

University of Wisconsin-Madison forest scientists are heading into Canada to determine how fires in the great boreal forest alter its uptake and release of carbon dioxide. Their findings will help policymakers understand the region’s role in global warming.

If you fish for sport, you want a trout or bass that puts up a fight. But if you raise fish for the frying pan, you’re better off with fish that are more laid back.

A “bug” called Rhodospirillum rubrum has the unusual ability to dine on carbon monoxide, the odorless gas that’s lethal to animals.