Catch of the Day
Play lake trivia at the lake
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Test your lake knowledge with a new trivia game from University of Wisconsin extension.
Asian carp
Michigan seeks ‘Eureka!’ cry on carp control
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The state is pursuing a game show technique increasingly used to solve difficult natural resource and other problems. Will it be enough to prompt someone to run naked down the street?
Homepage Featured
Seed-stealing insects hinder prairie restoration
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The finding may lead to better conservation of a largely unprotected ecosystem and one that can help mitigate climate change by capturing carbon.
Endangered wildlife
Great Lakes mammoths may have starved after population explosion
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Demise of the predators that ate them may have led to their own downfall.
Homepage Featured
Budget proposal threatens coastal improvement program
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The program supporting shoreline improvements is supported in part by a federal agency facing a proposed 17 percent cut.
Energy
Indiana man appeals sentence in $55 million biodiesel fraud case
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It’s the state’s largest tax fraud case.
The Buzz
Where people are, wrens aren’t
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Study shows how human development silences birdsong as it devours wetlands.
E. Coli
New tool helps locate water pollution threats from human, animal waste
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It illustrates where bacteria affiliated with agricultural run-off or defective sewer systems is present.
Forests
Emerald ash borers may increase crime, study says
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Researchers say tree loss plays a role in street crime.
Contaminants
New flame retardant threat documented in Great Lakes
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The persistent contaminant is a problem, even though it has replaced a different flame retardant that is more troublesome.