BATTLING BUCKTHORN WITH BAGGIES
There’s not a lot to like about the stout, spiked branches of the aggressively invasive buckthorn tree, and now there is a new way to remove it.
ASIAN JUMPING WORMS FOUND IN WISCONSIN
Destructive Jumping worms are being spotted around the Madison area. They are easy to spread because they winter in the ground as tiny, round brown or black cocoons about the size of the head of a pin.
HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES AND THE DRIFTLESS AREA ENVIRONMENT
When extensive edges are created, such as when you install a power line corridor, you reduce habitat and diminish local diversity within the remaining patches of habitat.
ELPC TOURS THE DRIFTLESS AREA
EPLC’s staff of attorneys, policy advocates, finance advisors, communications experts and organizers take on issues concerning climate change, clean energy, clean air, clean water, transportation and special places of environmental interest. It is the last category that brought them to Southwest Wisconsin.
FORENSIC BOTANY IN ACTION
An estimated $150 billion a year changes hands in the complex, global forest products industry that logs 32 million acres of forest every year, often illegally, leaving a trail of devastation to ecosystems and local economies around the world. Much of that timber makes its way to the United States, currently the largest wood products market in the world.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DRIFTLESS AREA THIS WINTER AT BMAP
Doug and I are so glad to be members of the Blue Mounds Area Project (BMAP). Fueled by the efforts of a part-time professional ecologist and a lot of […]
UW-MADISON AT THE PARIS CLIMATE TALKS
The Paris conference is very relevant to our lives right here in Wisconsin, and it could be one of the more significant agreements in history, and people from Wisconsin are there.
TAGGING MONARCHS AT GOOSE POND
It’s not too early to start thinking about joining the taggers next year to help the Monarchs keep flying.
LET’S SUPPORT THE SUSTAINABILITY WEEKEND AT FOLKLORE VILLAGE
“What Folklore Village is endeavoring to sustain is our environment, our foods and our cultural treasures. We feel like we are in touch with the local zeitgeist combining food, environment and art.”
USING OUR INSECT PALS TO BATTLE INSECT PESTS
Last Friday Doug and I got a ton of technical advice and hands-on experience about FARMING WITH BENEFICIAL INSECTS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL when we participated in the inaugural Xerces Society […]
Digging in the Driftless 