Tag: forest and wildlife ecology
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Posted on April 4, 2016
No snow, no hares: Climate change pushes emblematic species north
If there is an animal emblematic of the northern winter, it is the snowshoe hare. A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its […]
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Posted on March 21, 2016
Two CALS entries among winners of Cool Science Image Contest
Two images created by CALS students were were among the 10 winning entries in the university’s sixth annual Cool Science Image Contest. Our congratulations go out to forest and […]
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Posted on March 18, 2016
CALS’ Anna Pidgeon and Tom Rutherford presenting at UW Climate Change Symposium
Forest and wildlife ecology associate professor Anna Pidgeon and agricultural and applied economics professor Tom Rutherford will be giving research talks at the 2nd annual […]
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Posted on March 6, 2016
Anna Pidgeon selected for Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
Forest and wildlife ecology associate professor Anna Pidgeon, an expert on avian ecology and landscape ecology, was recently selected to receive a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator […]
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Posted on February 8, 2016
CALS researchers seek farmers to “ground truth” new remote-sensing maps
A multi-disciplinary group of CALS researchers has begun reaching out to farmers, asking them to become citizen scientists by sharing field-level crop yield data with the research […]
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Posted on January 10, 2016
Campus canid update, including new way to report sightings
The following is an update on our UW campus foxes and coyotes submitted in late December by Marcus Mueller, a wildlife ecology graduate student involved in the Urban Canid […]
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Subnivium research project benefits from win-win collaboration
Jonathan Pauli and Benjamin Zuckerberg, both assistant professors in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, appear in a recent video explaining the subnivium — […]
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Posted on December 14, 2015
Forestry Club says “thanks” for another successful Christmas tree sale
The Forestry Club would like to thank all of our supporters for a successful 2015 Christmas Tree Sale. We were able to find homes for all […]
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Posted on November 30, 2015
Grab some greenery: Forestry club Christmas tree sale this weekend
The UW Forestry Club’s 42nd annual Christmas Tree Sale takes place this weekend at the UW Stock Pavilion. Tree species available for purchase include Fraser fir ($55), balsam […]
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Posted on November 13, 2015
Joe Hickey celebrated for 1965 landmark peregrine falcon conference
The late CALS wildlife ecology professor Joseph J. Hickey, the successor to Aldo Leopold’s faculty position at the UW-Madison, was celebrated last week at the […]