It’s a common assumption: Bats are important because they feast upon those pervasive warm-weather pests known as mosquitoes. You want to see bats flying above, […]

New research out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has, for the first time, detected prions responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in samples taken from […]

Seven CALS faculty members, listed below, were among 40 UW-Madison faculty selected to receive Vilas professorships and awards this year. The awards are supported by the […]

The students were thrilled that, for the first time all semester, they could conduct their lab outing without huddling under winter coats. Though it was […]

As some UW–Madison students flew south for spring break, 10 forest and wildlife ecology students drove north. It’s rare that a distance learning course offers […]

Please join the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology for the 21st Annual Aldo Leopold Lecture presented by Dr. Rolf O. Peterson on Tuesday, April 17 in Ebling Auditorium […]

Arlie (Bill) Schorger, a faculty member in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology from 1951 – 1971, will be posthumously inducted into the the […]

Crop management and the utilization of satellites to map fields from space will be the focus of this week’s Wednesday Nite @ the Lab talk […]

Diverging from centuries of established behavioral norms, red fox and coyote have gone against their wild instincts and learned to coexist in the urban environment […]