Tag: Forest and Wildlife Ecology
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Posted on January 30, 2018
Urban foxes and coyotes learn to set aside their differences and coexist
Diverging from centuries of established behavioral norms, red fox and coyote have gone against their wild instincts and learned to coexist in the urban environment […]
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Posted on January 26, 2018
Scouting the eagles: Proof that protecting nests aids reproduction
Reproduction among bald eagles in a remote national park in Minnesota was aided when their nests were protected from human disturbance, according to a study […]
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Posted on January 16, 2018
Lake Michigan waterfowl botulism deaths linked to warm waters, algae
Since the 1960s, tens of thousands of birds living on the Great Lakes have died during periodic outbreaks of botulism. The outbreaks have only become […]
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Posted on January 12, 2018
UW–Madison professor led fight to ban pesticide DDT 45 years ago
Forty-five years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release. “The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in […]
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Posted on January 2, 2018
Saving an American icon in England
On a mild spring day in 1980, a handful of men gathered on the sprawling lawn of England’s Windsor Castle, there to do a little […]
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Posted on December 22, 2017
Life of the Christmas tree after Christmas – Audio
/RSS FeedThis podcast was originally published in December 2011. Scott Bowe, UW-Extension wood products specialist Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and […]
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Posted on December 8, 2017
Keeping pests out of your home this winter – Jamie Nack
/RSS FeedJamie Nack, UW-Extension senior wildlife outreach specialist Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology College of Agricultural and Life Sciences jlnack@wisc.edu (608) 265-8264 3:10 – Total […]
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Posted on December 7, 2017
Decades-past logging still threatens spotted owls in national forests
Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species’ habitat. But […]
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Posted on November 22, 2017
Mapping cropland: UW-Madison plays critical role in worldwide map
A global collaboration has just released a satellite-based map of world croplands that “found” 625 million to 875 million acres that were not known to […]
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Posted on November 3, 2017
‘Driftless’ reading echoes Wisconsin’s past, present, future
The geography and culture of Wisconsin’s Driftless area were celebrated Saturday night through the words of writers known and unknown, and in the ideal location: […]