2019-2020 Northland Catalog
…Natural Resources as a wildlife biologist earlier this year after over thirty-two years working for the agency, and served on the Timber Wolf Alliance advisory council since 1990. He headed up the Wisconsin wolf recovery program that included intense monitoring of the state wolf population from 1990 through 2013. Northland…
…state of forests in this region. Johnson participated in a 2007 UW-Madison re-survey of plant biodiversity in Wisconsin, closely mirroring a plant survey performed in the post-cutover by John Curtis, the author of The Vegetation of Wisconsin. The re-survey results suggested that the forests of this area are not bouncing…
2020-2021 Northland Catalog
…There are about 643,000, the vast majority in Canada, but healthy numbers in the Great Lakes states. Wisconsin’s population is about 4,350, up from about 2,350 in 1985. If you are wondering where our Wisconsin loons are now as we wait for the ice to leave the lakes, they’re staging…
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2017-2018 Northland Catalog
This year marked the seventh Wisconsin Loon Population Survey. This survey started in 1985 and is orchestrated once every five years on 258 pre-selected lakes throughout northern Wisconsin. This year 230 volunteers surveyed 223 lakes on July 18 between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. During this time, survey volunteers recorded…
By John Myers, Duluth News Tribune What if we could turn millions of plastic pop bottles back into chemicals, and then reuse those chemicals in things such as pharmaceuticals or cosmetics? Turns out that’s exactly what students at two Wisconsin schools have shown can be done. Research teams of undergraduate…
