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Wolf laying down

Wolf Ecology and Conservation-certification Weekend

August 18, 2023, 7:00 pmAugust 20, 2023, 12:00 pm

Join Timber Wolf Alliance Chair Adrian Wydeven and TWA Advisory Council members for this wolf ecology volunteer-certification course. Learn about wolf ecology, wolf monitoring techniques, and the latest wolf issues from biologists and educators immersed in this field. Time will be spent in the classroom and in the field surveying…

Loon flying over a lake

Get Involved

Since 1978, LoonWatch’s Annual Lakes Monitoring Program has engaged an active volunteer network of Loon Rangers as its primary tool to collect critical long-term data on loons in northern Wisconsin. Working as population monitors and environmental educators, these volunteers have been the field force that has provided SOEI and WI…

Loon and Baby

LoonWatch

…cases are responsible for loons and loon music disappearing from traditional nesting lakes. LoonWatch, a program of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, protects common loons and their aquatic habitats through education, monitoring, and research. Though our primary focus is Wisconsin, our education and research activities extend to Upper Great Lakes…

Deer exclosure-Bayfield County

Wisconsin’s Disappearing Forest

Prof Sarah Johnson researches the botanical realities of deer browse

…regarding placing a moratorium on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ “earn-a-buck” program—one of the most immediate and useful methods for controlling deer populations, according to Johnson. This program, which many state botanists and foresters supported, required that hunters shoot a doe before shooting a buck to keep the deer…

wolf art

Wolf Conservation in America’s National Parks

…Mech became a world authority on wolves and was instrumental in changing human attitudes with numerous scientific and popular articles. Dr. Rolf O. Peterson continued the Isle Royale wolf-moose studies to what is now known as the longest, continuously running wildlife monitoring program in the world. Peterson, a string of…

Northland College staff working in stream

Researchers Create Model for the Great Lakes

…Huron to western Lake Erie. Research Scientist Matt Cooper at the Northland College Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation has been researching this region that spans Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie. “The hope is that the work on Lake Erie and Lake Huron will act as a prototype…

FinalGreat Lakes Science for Parks Symposium 2023 Booklet

…National Park Bailey Adams – NPS Scientists in Parks Program Marcus Key – NPS Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Thomas Parr – NPS Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Desi Robertson-Thompson – NPS Great Lakes Research and Education Center Erin Williams – NPS Great Lakes Northern Forest; NPS Great Lakes Restoration…