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Wisconsin Life # 909: Pine View Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Center

We explore the Pine View Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Center in Fredonia as they work to rescue and release animals back into the wild. Our Host Angela Fitzgerald talks with Jeannie Lord, executive director who founded the non-profit center in 1981.

Letting monkeys be monkeys: Retired lab monkeys find retirement at Wisconsin sanctuary

Amy Kerwin, founder and executive director of Primates Incorporated, says monkeys used in research and drug testing have often never been outside, and are sometimes singly-housed away from other monkeys. Kerwin knows, she used to work in a primate testing lab.

Where and how the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and his ax began

Paul Bunyan stories are plentiful. He cleared forests with one swing of his ax. He and his trusty bovine, Babe the Blue Ox, dug the Great Lakes to quench the thirst of his fellow loggers. He created the Mississippi River by simply dragging his ax behind him. But why? That's what Ryan Urban of Rice Lake wanted to know, so he reached out to Wisconsin Public Radio's WHYsconsin.