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 B.J. Hollars | Jul 20, 2015 | Magazine Article
After six months of searching, I stumble upon the last ivory-billed woodpecker the world has ever known. Though, admittedly, what I find in a file folder at a museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, hardly qualifies as an ivory-billed woodpecker. It isn’t exactly flesh, blood,...
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 Stanley A. Temple | Aug 28, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the mid-19th century, the passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird in North America, numbering three to five billion, according to scientist and naturalist A. W. Schorger. A former Wisconsin Academy President, Schorger wrote in 1955 what is still considered to...
by Jason Smith | May 1, 2014 | Magazine Article
White-nose syndrome, a bat disease that has spread to 23 states and killed up to five million bats since 2006, has been confirmed in Wisconsin, according to officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Results from visual inspection and genetic and...
