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TWA Wolf Awareness Week poster by Bateman

TWA Selects Artwork for 2018 Wolf Awareness Week Poster

Canadian Artist Robert Bateman Featured

…Bateman said. “By featuring the wildlife in my art in its natural habitat, the viewer is encouraged to closely observe the natural world.” The Timber Wolf Alliance will be focusing on the Mexican wolf this year for Wolf Awareness Week October 21 – 27. The deadline for sponsorships and for…

wolf head

TWA Responds to State Bill 602/AB712

…future. 2) Weakening of a Positive Relationship with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the USFWS have cultivated a long-term, positive partnership focused on the management of wolves in Wisconsin, and since 2000, the USFWS has supported the delisting of wolves in…

wolf laying down

Scientists Divided Over Delisting Wolves in the Midwest

…a letter to Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe to support the federal delisting of gray wolves within the Western Great Lakes region (LettertoDelist_11_18_2015 ). Two weeks later, seventy scientists and scholars summarized their conclusions in an open letter that wolves…

Aerial shot of river flowing through Highway 2, following June 2018 storm

WPR: Northern Wisconsin Project Seeks To ‘Slow The Flow’ Of Stormwater

Local, State, Federal Partners Aim To Reduce Flood Peaks, Erosion In Northern Wisconsin

…The Great Lakes Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded just under $300,000 in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative money that funded work to reduce flood peaks and erosion in North Fish Creek, said Matt Hudson, associate director of the college’s Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. “If we…

Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator Jordyn O'Gara

O’Gara ’18 Named Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator

Wolf Awareness Week Events October 23, 25, 26

…O’Gara studied natural resources with an emphasis on wildlife ecology and ecological restoration, interned at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, and conducted gray fox and wolf research with Erik R. Olson, assistant professor of natural resources, who serves on the TWA Advisory Board. “With one foot in research…

Northland College student collects data for bat research

Monitoring Bats by Sound

The Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Employs Students for Bat Research

…location year after year, according to Kirschbaum. “Specifically, we are looking for changes in population sizes for bats that hibernate over winter,” said Abby Keller, also a senior studying natural resources with an emphasis on fisheries and wildlife. Keller spent her summer conducting similar research at Voyageurs National Park near…

Black bear on a trail cam

The Hidden Lives of Island Carnivores

Insights into Island Biogeography

…rodents, squirrels, songbirds and waterfowl. “This is one of the first studies to examine the carnivore community of the Apostle Islands archipelago,” said Erik Olson, associate professor of natural resources, who led the new research with Van Deelen at the University of Wisconsin, Julie Van Stappen of the Apostle Islands…

Young ladies in a canoe on a lake with fall colors behind them.

Youth Outreach Programs

…vendors, Thursday evening reception, and Friday lunch. Register Today: $95 About the Conference Featuring authors, illustrators, and educators, the conference will focus on literature and the natural world. Highlights include: key note presentations by author Emma Bland Smith, winner of the 2017 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature,…

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