by Hannah Wagie | Apr 8, 2025 | Videos
In this Wisconsin Academy talk, Wisconsin Treasures Beneath Your Feet, Dr. Hannah Wagie examined the life of silicon dioxide, the molecule that makes up the major component of sand and glass. This inorganic material comes alive once it is...
by Mark Zimmermann | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
Science writer and naturalist Scott Spoolman not only knows Wisconsin’s natural world well, his fine new book, Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History, reflects a lifetime spent in the woods and wilds of the state. Part guidebook...
by Jane Elder | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
I grew up on the shores of a small lake in southern Michigan. To this day, I can clearly recall the choir of natural voices, from the returning geese and red-winged blackbirds to the awakening frogs, heralding the arrival of spring. The marshy areas around the lake...
by Steven Potter | Jul 14, 2017 | Magazine Article
Around the turn on a cobbled path that runs through Madison’s Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Peter Krsko perches on top of a ladder next to a tree, holding a handful of what look like unnumbered yardsticks. As visitors pass by, they pause and watch him add a few of the...
by Myles Dannhausen Jr., Len Villano | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
As we age, we often envy the excitement of the little boy who discovers a chipmunk burrow or the girl enraptured by a family of ducks on a pond. Sometimes, we wish we could go back in time and again experience that special joy of discovery. For Door County naturalist...
