by Nickolas Butler | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
One of the most influential conservationists working today in Wisconsin doesn’t keep an office at any of the state’s fine colleges or universities, nor is he employed by the Department of Natural Resources or any other government body. Oftentimes, especially around...
by Lisa Gaumnitz | Dec 16, 2014 | Magazine Article
Kathy Mehls is a retired high school guidance counselor from Chippewa Falls with an abiding love of birds and the outdoors. Most days, Mehls experiences the sciences vicariously through her daughter Casey, a biologist working to protect endangered species in South...
by Erik Ness | Aug 2, 2013 | Magazine Article
It’s shaping up to be a thirsty century. All over the world demand for fresh water is increasing, but supplies are declining in both quantity and quality. Ten major rivers from the Yellow in China to the Colorado in Mexico regularly fade away before they reach...
by Theresa Lins | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Roger Coleman, a senior at Riverside University High School in Milwaukee, got his first taste of the Urban Ecology Center by “hay sledding” down a hill during their Fall Festival when he was in fifth grade. His second visit to the Center happened a few weeks later...
