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Natural Plant Communities Talk & Tour at the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve on Saturday, May 26th at 10 AM

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I received the following press release that I’m happy to post: Renae Prell-Mitchell, from UW-Whitewater, will lead a ‘Natural Plant Communities Talk & Tour’ at the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve on Saturday, May 26th at 10 AM. Renae will talk about the existing wetlands, DOT prairie and Silver maples/bur oak stand, as well as the…

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Go Native!

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Whitewater has many well-manicured lawns, and on a few of them, some honey bee hives. The lawns are lovely, and the honey bees (despite depleted aggregate numbers from colony collapse disorder) are good pollinators. But what if there’s something different, perhaps even better, than conventional lawns and common honey bees? There is something different —…

Animals, Nature

Six more weeks of winter

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Here’s a recording of Punxsutawney Phil’s 2012 prediction that six more weeks of winter await us. I know that there are local groundhogs in the forecasting biz, but here at FW only the most reputable, established, and celebrated groundhog will do. That’s Phil. video platform video management video solutions video player Okay, for those who…

Animals, Nature, Wisconsin

New ‘deer czar’ absent for deer hunt

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Sack him, and he’ll have even more time for projects in Texas: “I’m a busy man. I’m in high demand. I had a schedule already set up. And also as a Texan, and I think Wisconsin folks are the same way, I keep my word. And I already had a schedule set up. I film…

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Camera Trap App Sends Wild Animals to Your iPhone

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The Instant Wild app, free and newly released by the Zoological Society of London, streams images to your iPhone or iPad from camera traps in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and England’s Whipsnade Zoo. Images can also be seen via browser. “It’s amazing for people to just be sitting in their office or walking in the street and…