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Comment Forum, Nature
Update: When will Whitewater see its first accumulated snowfall this season? When you thought it would…
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over a month ago, I asked in a Poll & Comment Forum: When will Whitewater see its first accumulated snowfall this season? The standard was at least one inch, and I think we’re close enough today for Saturday, December 17th to be Whitewater’s first snowfall. It’s not much snow, but it’s enough to be noticeable, and…
Animals, Nature, Wisconsin
New ‘deer czar’ absent for deer hunt
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Animals, Nature
Camera Trap App Sends Wild Animals to Your iPhone
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
Animals, Conservation, Nature
DNR Establishes Anti-Poacher Hotline
by JOHN ADAMS •
I saw that the WI DNR has established an anti-poacher hotline. Not a bad idea, and especially nice to see that (as with similar hotlines) the state readily embraces a principle of anonymity: Help the wardens protect your natural resources and wildlife from poachers and violators. If you see anything suspicious during the pending 9-day…
Nature
Northern Lights Over Wisconsin 10.24.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature
Before Irene: The Great Hurricane of ’38 – WSJ.com
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Nature
Whitewater’s First 70-Degree Day (with heat to spare)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Two weeks ago, the FW comment forum asked, in comments and a poll, what would be Whitewater’s First 70-Degree Day this Year? Today was that day (using the Weather.com data for Whitewater), topping out at over 80 degrees. (The National Weather Service data for the Whitewater area, using Janesville information, showed a high temperature of…
Nature
From Wired, a Capuchin Monkey Video
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature
Gallery of Falconry Photos – JSOnline
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Nature
Amazing Fox Snow Dive from the BBC
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Nature, Press
Deer, coyotes and turkeys, oh my!
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Wisconsin Center for investigative Journalism‘s Kate Golden and Allie Tempus have a fine story about the number and cost of collisions between wildlife and aircraft in Wisconsin. Just as Doug Drost was landing at the Shell Lake airport, his wife, Karen Drost, saw something hurtling out of the darkness toward their Cessna 210. Something big.…
Conservation, Nature
Sandhill Cranes
by JOHN ADAMS •
A video of a huge flock Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. The video clip includes cranes landing. Via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grus_canadensis_-Bosque_del_Apache_National_Wildlife_Refuge,_New_Mexico,_USA-8.ogv By snowpeak (John Fowler) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowpeak/5396822610/) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] via Wikimedia Commons