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The war over wind
on 09/10/09 at 9:00 am | It was the strangest sensation Lynda Barry ever felt: a near-constant vibration within her body. "You know how sometimes, around your eye, you'll get this little tic that kind of wiggles?" says Barry, of Footville, Wis., south of Janesville. "It was like having that in your ear and your chest. A pulsing. It's the weirdest feeling!" |
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Is Wisconsin the source of H1N1 swine flu?
on 05/28/09 at 9:00 am | The print edition of Newsweek magazine for May 18, 2009, seemed to implicate Wisconsin as the birthplace of swine flu, which as of May 29 had infected some 1,370 Wisconsinites, 100 of those in Dane County. |
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Is the answer blowin' in the wind?
on 05/07/09 at 9:00 am | A proposed bill to streamline regulations for small to mid-size wind energy developments is backed by clean energy advocates but questioned by groups seeking to ensure the safety of wildlife. |
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Reality: CWD is here to stay
on 02/12/09 at 9:00 am | Near the end of 2008, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released its draft plan for managing chronic wasting disease (CWD) over the next 10 years. The state's Natural Resources Board has already endorsed one feature of the plan, agreeing in January to a statewide ban on deer baiting and feeding, and passing on that recommendation to the Legislature. But Madison activist John Stauber, who's led the charge to get the state to see CWD as a human health risk, thinks the plan is doomed to fail. |
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Public Service Commission takes a stand against coal
on 11/13/08 at 9:00 am | Katie Nekola couldn't be happier. On Tuesday, the state Public Service Commission voted 3-0 against Alliant Energy Corporation's controversial $1.26 billion electrical generating plant in Cassville, Wis. |
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Fallow farmland proves unsustainable
on 07/10/08 at 9:00 am | Last year, Dane County grain farmer Neil Schlough pulled 12 acres of his land out of the federal Conservation Reserve Program. Schlough, who participated in CRP for 20 years, grew tired of constraints on the use of his land. His natural grasses were being lost to scrubby trees and noxious weeds. And program rules made it hard even to maintain walking trails. |
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'A green and blaze orange issue'
on 04/18/08 at 9:01 am | This January, in Monona Bay, the Yahara Fishing Club did something it hadn't been able to do for several years: Hold an ice fishing event for kids. The groups schedules the event every winter, but the scarcity of ice cover on Madison-area lakes has made the event hit or miss. Mostly miss. |
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Northern Wisconsin seeks sustainability
on 02/14/08 at 10:00 am | Kelsey Brasseur had knocked on just a handful of doors in Ashland, Wis., before making a sale. Well, not a sale, exactly, but an exchange: of light bulbs and environmental ideas. |
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Rising prices undercut land buys
on 01/10/08 at 10:00 am | Environmentalists and conservationists hailed passage of the new state budget, which included a 40% increase in the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund. Starting in 2011, the state will increase the amount it gives annually to the fund from $60 million to $86 million, for the next decade. |
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Are you ready for kamikaze carp?
on 12/13/07 at 10:00 am | On the Mississippi River near Cassville, John Lyons of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is looking for Asian carp. Twice a summer for the last five years, Lyons has dragged the river bottom with trammel nets, seined the near shore, and electroshocked the shallows, in search of silver and bighead carp. |
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Wildlife Gone Wild
on 09/07/07 at 10:26 am | In June of this year, news stories proclaimed that the bald eagle was flying so high it was no longer considered endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. Within a few days, wounded and crippled bald eagles started arriving at Marge Gibson's rehabilitation facility in Antigo, their wing bones shattered by lead shot, their feathers in tatters. |
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Pressure is great on northern lakes
on 06/14/07 at 2:54 pm | |
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How many boats are too many?
on 06/14/07 at 2:45 pm | Every summer, Sue Jones hears the complaints from local canoeists and kayakers: Madison-area lakes are too crowded; the paddlers are getting pushed around on the waters, and something needs to be done. |
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Get out and stay out!
on 05/03/07 at 2:59 pm | In the Madison area, there are many youth-oriented programs to connect kids with nature. Here’s a few: |
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Leave no child inside
on 05/03/07 at 2:50 pm | It’s a truism as old as the woods: If you want to help kids
develop an appreciation for nature, you have to get them outdoors. That’s why places like the Boston School Forest — or the forest maintained by the Madison school district — exist. |
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The fight to preserve public access
on 08/04/06 at 12:00 pm | Last year, when he heard the Tigerton Lumber Company wanted
to lease thousands of acres of its land to deer hunters in Shawano and Waupaca counties, Don Goers wasn't worried. These lands had been open to the public for decades, and the 75-year-old Shawano resident had hunted and trapped on them
much of his life. |
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