Tag: Forest and Wildlife Ecology
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Posted on March 25, 2013
Badger study sheds light on Wisconsin’s elusive state animal
Badgers are notoriously difficult to study. Not only do they spend all day in underground dens, emerging only by night to hunt—they can’t even be […]
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Posted on February 11, 2013
Five things everyone should know about Wisconsin’s tension zone
1. You will not suddenly develop migraines upon entry. Rather, a “tension zone” describes a geographic area that marks a change from one type of vegetation […]
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Posted on January 30, 2013
Surveying tick populations with Susan Paskewitz
This past summer Kelsey Egelhoff, an undergraduate in the forest and wildlife ecology department, spent the summer filming some of the research and other activities […]
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Posted on January 17, 2013
In the eastern U.S., spring flowers keep pace with warming climate
Using the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrated that native plants in the eastern […]
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Posted on January 1, 2013
A warmer world favors bark beetles over trees
Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals. […]
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Bad news for bats: deadly fungus can persist in caves
Researchers have found that the organism that causes deadly white-nose syndrome persists in caves long after it has killed the bats in those caves. A […]
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Posted on November 30, 2012
Van Deelen: wolf and deer hunting seasons intertwined, complicated – Audio
/RSS FeedTim Van Deelen, Associate Professor Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences trvandeelen@wisc.edu (608) 265-3280 2:58 – Total Time […]
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Posted on November 29, 2012
Van Deelen: wolf and deer hunting seasons intertwined, complicated – Audio
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[audio:https://news.cals.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Tim_Van_Deelen_2012_deer_wolf_hunt_01.mp3|titles=Tim Van Deelen and the complicated wolf hunt] Tim Van Deelen, Associate Professor Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life […]
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Posted on November 19, 2012
Future foresters learn among the trees
It may sound unlikely. Certainly it sounds idyllic. But there’s a university course where professors may interrupt class to watch sturgeon swim by, and where […]
