Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a progressive illness that causes severe weight loss and eventually death in deer and elk. The disease has been detected […]

For the nearly 35 million Americans who faithfully stock their feeders to attract songbirds, an increasingly common sight is a hawk feeding on the birds […]

With the warmer months upon us, the outdoor season is in full swing. There are hikes to take and birds to watch, fish to catch […]

1. There are no vampire bats in Transylvania. Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula popularized the connection between Eastern European vampires and bats. But Old World vampire […]

Ray Guries, emeritus professor in the UW–Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, is the newest member of the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame. His […]

Brian Luck grew up on an 800-acre corn and soybean farm in western Kentucky, so he knows well the look of a planted field from the […]

After decades of trapping, the last known American marten was spotted on Isle Royale in 1917. Fifty years later, in 1966, the National Park Service […]

On Oct. 25, the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) will present its Honorary Recognition Award to Daphne and Lloyd Holterman, […]

Two years after the volunteer-run wildlife monitoring program Snapshot Wisconsin started rolling out, this innovative project is going statewide. Starting Aug. 9, the Wisconsin Department of Natural […]

The American marten, a small, elusive member of the weasel family, was long thought to be extinct in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands. Now, thanks in part to […]