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  • Waterfowl create new challenges in effort to restore wild rice on Spur Lake in Oneida County

    Waterfowl create new challenges in effort to restore wild rice on Spur Lake in Oneida County
    2024/12/19
    Before the ice moved in, the Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa Community and Wisconsin DNR staff spread more than 400 pounds of wild rice seed on Spur Lake in Oneida County. Part of the strategy with this year’s seeding was how to best protect against waterfowl.
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    4 分
  • People from around the world come to Rhinelander to learn how to best use plants to clean up waste

    People from around the world come to Rhinelander to learn how to best use plants to clean up waste
    2024/09/26
    Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to clean up waste.It’s been used across the U.S. on sites like landfills, mines, and urban brownfields.The U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Lab in Rhinelander has become a leader in a specific phytoremediation method. It’s been working to share that method with Forest Service partners around the world.
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    6 分
  • The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe will grow culturally significant plants at Forest Service nursery as part of unique partnership

    The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe will grow culturally significant plants at Forest Service nursery as part of unique partnership
    2024/09/19
    The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe will begin growing medicinal and culturally significant plants at the J. W. Toumey Nursery in the Ottawa National Forest.It’s a first-of-its-kind partnership in the U.S.
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    6 分
  • Lac Vieux Desert Tribe works to restore wild rice and walleye on Lake Lac Vieux Desert

    Lac Vieux Desert Tribe works to restore wild rice and walleye on Lake Lac Vieux Desert
    2024/08/15
    The Ojibwe have long looked to Lake Lac Vieux Desert for its food sources.But there’s been major declines in wild rice and walleye in recent years that impact the Lac Vieux Desert Tribe’s food sovereignty.The tribe is now working with the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest on a project to help improve the two species populations.
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    6 分
  • Researchers are working towards more accurate wildfire smoke forecasting to help improve health and air quality

    Researchers are working towards more accurate wildfire smoke forecasting to help improve health and air quality
    2024/07/15
    Dozens of wildfires burning hundreds of thousands of acres are currently burning out west in both the U.S. and Canada.The last few summers brought smoke from fires just like them to the Northwoods, dropping air quality to some of the worst levels seen in the region in years.
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    6 分
  • Burned out: why (and how) northern Wisconsin will soon abandon coal as a power source

    Burned out: why (and how) northern Wisconsin will soon abandon coal as a power source
    2024/07/05
    In April, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that will force American coal plants to either close or cut back 90 percent of their carbon emissions.
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    5 分
  • How to save a park: the rebirth of Town Line Lake Park

    How to save a park: the rebirth of Town Line Lake Park
    2024/06/13
    Just a few years ago, the very existence of Town Line Lake Park was in jeopardy.
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    4 分
  • 'No Mow May' can be successful, but maybe not in the ways you think

    'No Mow May' can be successful, but maybe not in the ways you think
    2024/06/03
    Habitat destruction is the driving force behind pollinator population decline.In response, the No Mow May movement started about five years ago to encourage people to leave some flowers for the bees in early spring.
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    5 分