Tag: forest and wildlife ecology
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Posted on February 19, 2018
WN@tL this week: Mutlu Özdoğan on satellite crop management
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 […]
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Urban foxes and coyotes learn to set aside their differences and coexist
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 […]
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Posted on February 12, 2018
Scouting the eagles: Evidence that protecting nests aids reproduction
Reproduction among bald eagles in a remote national park in Minnesota was aided when their nests were protected from human disturbance, according to a recent […]
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Posted on February 5, 2018
CALS student research shared at UW Arboretum Science Day – Feb. 15
The CALS community is invited to join the UW Arboretum at their annual Science Day on Thursday, Feb. 15 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The […]
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Posted on February 1, 2018
Curt Meine named Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fellow
Curt Meine, adjunct associate professor in the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, was recently named a Wisconsin Academy Fellow by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, […]
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Mark Rickenbach selected for LEAD21 leadership program
Mark Rickenbach, professor, extension specialist and chair of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, was recently selected to take part in the LEAD21 (Leadership Development for the […]
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Posted on January 22, 2018
Lake Michigan waterfowl botulism deaths linked to warm waters, algae
Since the 1960s, tens of thousands of birds living on the Great Lakes have died during periodic outbreaks of botulism. The outbreaks have only become […]
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Posted on January 16, 2018
UW–Madison professor led fight to ban pesticide DDT 45 years ago
Forty-five years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release. “The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in […]
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Posted on January 2, 2018
Decades-past logging still threatens spotted owls in national forests
Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species’ habitat. But […]
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Posted on November 27, 2017
Celebrate the sandhill crane success story, says Stan Temple
In the world of wildlife conservation, it is important to celebrate success stories, and the story of Sandhill Cranes has surely been one worth celebrating. […]