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Sprinkling lead on the wild garden

By Carrol L. Henderson | September 22, 2020 |

Carrol Henderson calls on fellow hunters to choose non-toxic ammo

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, wildlife Tagged With: hunting, lead

Flexing mussels

By Greg Seitz | April 13, 2020 |

The life-and-death secrets of mussels.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Research, Science, St. Croix River, wildlife Tagged With: aquatic life, mussels, science, Wildlife

Hawks on High

By Phil Fitzpatrick | November 9, 2019 |

A trio of poems from Phil Fitzpatrick’s “Hawks on High”

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry, Uncategorized, wildlife

Confronting Great Lakes invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 15, 2019 |

Mid-ocean ballast water exchange is working well to keep non-native aquatic organisms from invading the Great Lakes, but scientists are racing to find more secure solutions.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: ais, Great Lakes, invasive species

For the love of turtles

By Laurie Allmann | July 25, 2019 |

A conversation with herpetologist Carol Hall

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, wildlife Tagged With: turtles

Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?

By Nancy Langston | January 14, 2019 |

Woodland caribou on Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior. Credit: Christian Schroeder.

Human policy decisions may pose a more imminent threat to caribou than climate change.

Filed Under: Climate Change, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, wildlife Tagged With: climate change, Wildlife

Poem: “The Underword”

By Barton Sutter | September 13, 2018 |

The Wanderer. © Jim Gindorff

A poem for a magical fall day.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Poetry, wildlife Tagged With: Nature, poetry, Wildlife

Uncovering the secret lives of wolves

By Alissa Johnson | June 28, 2018 |

A creek running through an old beaver meadow, or beaver pond that has drained and become a meadow, near Junction Bay in Voyageurs National Park. Photo by Tom Gable.

A study in Voyageurs National Park is revealing details about wolf predation on beavers, leading to new insights about the ways wolves hunt—breakthrough information helping scientists create a fuller picture of how wolves impact the larger ecosystem.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, wildlife Tagged With: voyageurs national park, wolves

Canada Lynx: Life on the Edge

By Laurie Allmann | April 27, 2018 |

An 8,065 square-mile region in northeastern Minnesota is defined as critical habitat for threatened lynx in the Lower 48 under the Endangered Species Act. Photo © Thomas Spence

As researchers in the Superior National Forest work to learn more about the Canada lynx, the species may lose its federal protected status in the Lower 48

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, wildlife

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