by Christopher Kilgour, Rudy Molinek | Jul 30, 2023 | Videos
On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at Piece of Mined in Mayville, WI, Color in the Outdoors’ Christopher Kilgour and Geologist Rudy Molinek took us on a journey through Wisconsin’s frozen past in Carved by Ice, Shaped by Time: Wisconsin’s Glacial Heritage, the...
by Kyle Farris | Jul 22, 2021 | Magazine Article
On a cool, sunny morning, Eric Leis trudges through the glassy water of Lake Onalaska and stops about fifteen feet from shore. He dips a large, flat rake into the water and sweeps it along the bottom. A parasitologist and fish biologist at the La Crosse Fish Health...
by Adam Hinterthuer | Oct 15, 2019 | Magazine Article
On the shores of Lake Michigan, one of the largest sources of fresh water in the world, Rebecca Klaper is busy pouring the tiniest materials humans have ever made into tanks containing some of the smallest members of the Great Lakes food web. Klaper is a professor in...
by John Lyons | Aug 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
On a particularly hot July day during the summer of 2012, Phil Cochran, Gary Borash, and I were netting fish in the backwaters and side channels of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin. We were working for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on an...
by Dave Cieslewicz | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
According to Peter Annin, the future is all about water. And here in Wisconsin, we’ve got it. The problem is: The rest of the world wants it. In a newly revised and expanded edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars, which was first released in 2006, Annin has written...