Getting to Know Your Forest Health Team: Mike Hillstrom and Oak Wilt
We are now in the high risk period of the year for oak wilt in Wisconsin...
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WICCI Report: Warmer Winters & Extreme Rain Are Stressing Wisconsin’s Forest Resources
By Dea Larsen Converse: WICCI Communications Director A focus on climate impacts to Wisconsin’s forests in the most recent assessment from the Wisconsin Initiative on…
Getting to Know Your Forest Health Team: Bill McNee and The Spongy Moth
Spongy moth caterpillars usually start hatching between mid-April and early May in the southern counties of Wisconsin. Though they have largely been out of sight in rural forests for close to a decade...
Getting to Know Your Forest Health Team: Brenna DeNamur
Incursions of insects and plants that are harmful to healthy, natural woodland balance, such as Emerald Ash Borer and Jumping Worms...
Are YOU a Scientist?
By Denise Thornton Many Wisconsin landowners—the concerned and the curious—are joining the growing ranks of citizen scientists (CS) who collect information about their property to…
Is Light Pollution Affecting the Wildlife in My Woods?
By Emily Oyos Star-gazing has been a favorite pastime for millennia, but these days, it often seems like stars are growing dimmer and decreasing in…
A Look Back on the Big Woods of Wisconsin: 90 Years and Counting
By Emily Oyos For centuries, wilderness has been at the center of storytelling. From pictographs to oral histories to the written word, nature has provided…
The Outstanding Vision of a Lady Landowner
By Denise Thornton The view from horseback connects Denise Marino to her land. “It was a dream to have land so I could have my…
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, it can be…
The 2022 Phenology Calendar is On Sale Now!
It’s officially fall, and the year is already coming to a close! The Aldo Leopold Foundation, a partner of My Wisconsin Woods, is excited to announce...
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…
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…
Which Plant ID App Should I Download?
“What’s the name of that plant, again? Is that a native or an invasive species? If only I’d brought my field guide with me.” If…
The Hustle, Bustle, and Serenity of Summer
Hot and humid—just what the doctor ordered for a growing summer garden. Rain has come to the central Kickapoo Valley a few times this past…
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.…
Ancient Prairie in Wisconsin
Thirteen acres of lush green hillside meadow, tucked away in a cool and quiet valley. What a perfect place to spend a Sunday afternoon, slowly…
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…
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.…
USDA Offers New Forest Management Incentive for Conservation Reserve Program
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making available $12 million for use in making payments to forest landowners with land…
The Turning Year Rimes With Woodland Beauty
The first week of 2021 was trying to tell us something wonderful is afoot, right? As the calendar turned its page on a challenging year,…
Swansong In An Owly Winter
Up until now, the weather has been very pleasant and I was able to get lots of things done outside in preparation for the winter…
Cooperating for Woods and Wildlife Video Series
As a proud sponsor, we hope you enjoy this 3-part video series from Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) featuring how landowners work…
October Makes Way for the Coming Cold
Most of the woodland trees have lost their colorful fall plumage and the prairie grasses are nodding, golden-brown heads in the meadow. It happens every…
Virtual Field Days Help You Manage for Sustained Wildlife, Environment, and Timber
The Tree Farm Virtual Field Day 2020 was very…2020, AND is now an online treasure of resources for Wisconsin woodland owners who plan to up…
How many did you get right?
Here are the answers to the Cooperating for Forest Management video quiz. How much of Wisconsin woodlands are privately owned? More than half of Wisconsin’s…
Tips for 4 Common Fall Projects
The number of hopeful projects for landowners always seems infinite, but each fall presents an opportunity to check something off the seemingly never-ending list. Here are…
Psst! The 2021 Phenology Calendar is On Sale!
As it turns out, the most important date to note in your 2021 phenology field book is…right now! We’re not exactly sure how that works,…
The Fabulous Fall Color Quiz
It’s one of THE best perks of woodland ownership. Every autumn a master artist comes along and overnight converts your property into a priceless work…
Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed In Oconto And Shawano Counties
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) forestry staff have confirmed the presence of emerald ash borer (EAB) in the Town of Little Suamico in Oconto…
My Wisconsin Woods Facebook @ 10,000 Followers!
We’ve reached a big social media milestone! In less than two years, our My Wisconsin Woods Facebook page recently earned its 10,000th dedicated follower! Since…