Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/page/10/?s=wild+rice)
By Megan Durisin
Jan. 25, 2010
LANSING, Mich. — A new bill would increase hunting opportunities by annually auctioning off five bear and elk licenses. Rep. Jim Stamas, R-Midland, the primary sponsor and vice chair of the House Tourism, Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resources Committee, said the aim is two-fold. “We’re trying to find a way to help lower the licensing fees for those in state,” Stamas said.
By Alice Rossignol and Jeff Gillies
Oct. 27, 2009
Wisconsin researchers hope six-legged fungus farmers can speed the switch from gasoline to plant-based fuels. The farmers are leafcutter ants, and for millions of years they’ve been breaking down plants into the ingredients people now hope to use to brew environmentally friendly fuels. By studying how plants break down in a leafcutter ant colony, we might do a better job of breaking them down in a big biofuel production facility, said Cameron Currie, a bacteriology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We can learn about how natural systems do it to model our own attempts to do it,” he said.