Episodios

  • Field Notes: Know your salamanders

    Field Notes: Know your salamanders
    Jun 13 2024
    Salamanders, newts and mudpuppies are amphibians, and they are all salamanders, but not all salamanders are newts or mudpuppies.
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    5 m
  • Field Notes: Wisconsin Crappies

    Field Notes: Wisconsin Crappies
    May 14 2024
    In Wisconsin, opening fishing applies to certain species of fish such as walleye, trout, largemouth bass, and northern pike. However, this season opener does not apply to panfish, which are open year-round. Panfish include species such as bluegill, crappie, sunfish, and yellow perch.
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    5 m
  • Recording long term data

    Recording long term data
    Mar 12 2024
    There are many kinds of record keeping that scientists use to recapture recent and ancient history
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    5 m
  • The Amazing Apple Tree

    The Amazing Apple Tree
    Feb 13 2024
    Apple cultivars brought as seed from Europe were spread along Native American trade routes, as well as being cultivated on colonial farms. By the mid 1800s, United States apples nursery catalogues sold 350 of the "best" cultivars, showing the proliferation of new North American cultivars by the 19th century.
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    6 m
  • El Nino in Wisconsin

    El Nino in Wisconsin
    Jan 9 2024
    Open lakes, no snow, and sweatshirt weather was the scene this December in Vilas County. Much to the chagrin of ice anglers and cross country skiers, El Nino has taken hold and has had many implications for the local people, economy, and ecosystems.
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    4 m
  • Northern Watersnakes

    Northern Watersnakes
    Dec 12 2023
    The Common Watersnake, Nerodia sipedon, is common throughout much of eastern North America. Our local subspecies, the Northern Watersnake, is common throughout much of Wisconsin.
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    5 m
  • Welcoming Exotic Invasives

    Welcoming Exotic Invasives
    Nov 14 2023
    There are many exotic plants and animals that we don’t consider to be pests. Corn is native to Mexico, soybeans are native to Asia, tulips are native to Europe. Most of our domesticated animals are exotic with domestic cattle originating in Asia. Many of these plants and animals are exotic but not extremely invasive. They have become part of ecosystem around us.
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    6 m
  • What do the Gulf Stream and a Northern Lake Have in Common?

    What do the Gulf Stream and a Northern Lake Have in Common?
    Sep 12 2023
    Global warming may also be affecting a global water circulation system abbreviated AMOC that includes the Gulf Stream, that river of ocean water that moves warm tropical water north along the east coast of North America before veering off toward Europe.
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    5 m