Many Wisconsin landowners—the concerned and the curious—are joining the growing ranks of citizen scientists (CS) who collect information about their property to share with ecologists...
Archive for category: Wildlife
Is Light Pollution Affecting the Wildlife in My Woods?
Star-gazing has been a favorite pastime for millennia, but these days, it often seems like stars are growing dimmer...
Getting Used to Changes Lately
September 18— Like last year, the summer is still lingering in the Kickapoo Valley and the garden flowers are showing their last blossoms. There’s still...
Insect ID Apps: Which is Best?
“Wow, I’ve never seen that bug before! I wonder what it is.” With over one million identified insect species on the planet...
Our Favorite Bird ID Apps
“It’s a bird…it’s a plane…it’s…well, shoot, now it’s gone. That was a neat bird! I wonder what it was.” It seems like we’ve all had those moments...
Muralt, Mississippi, and This Waning Summer
The new normal for me is getting comfortable with the expanding unpredictability of this region’s weather. I had convinced myself that the spring drought would...
Spring in the Kickapoo Valley
It’s been a beautiful spring—strange yet beautiful as springtime always is. It was strange that March and April seemed to trade places on the calendar....
Departures and Happy Spring Returns
It’s become almost impossible to predict what spring will bring or when it will come in earnest. February’s sub-zero temperatures gave little hope for an...
Messengers Matter
By Steve Swenson, Program Director As a teenager, Peggy Timmerman would have characterized her mother’s interest in nature as over-enthusiastic. Plants individually labelled with Latin...
Winter Raptors Signal Spring
These January days are cold and the nights even colder, but the promise of spring is in the air, in spite of the frigid temperatures....