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.

Since the discovery of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin deer this past spring, many individuals have expressed concern over the safety of venison. This fact sheet is designed to give you some background information on CWD, and to answer questions related to venison safety and handling this fall.

Counting a few hundred thousand bats sounds about as easy as herding a few thousand cats, but a UW-Madison researcher is successfully tallying the winter residents at one of the largest bat hibernation sites in the Midwest.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, working with an Illinois city and a Milwaukee County Zoo curator, hope to surgically scale down an urban deer herd that has outgrown its welcome. Sterilizing does should eventually, and non-lethally, pare deer numbers in the Highland Park herd, according to Nancy Mathews, a wildlife ecologist at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

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.

Do your friends and family applaud your priceless sense of humor? Or do they roll their eyes in complete denial of your talent? Either way, here’s your chance to show off your cleverness, wit, and knowledge of farming, and possibly win a cash prize.