Painting the landscape: Earth Day in the Heartland
Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970, after growing concerns for the environment. Since then, it’s ...
Sauk City’s Plastics Recycling Pioneer
Elise Moser first heard the name Milly Zantow at a conference and was surprised to learn that the driving force ...
Discovering An Ecosystem
Lately, I have been on the trail of a muskrat. Before winter, his muddy mound of a home appeared through ...
Playing Possum
We celebrate Earth Day this week. Many animals have evolved the ability to feign death. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn witnessed ...
Trespasser
Poet John Keats once wrote that the poetry of the earth is never dead. In honor of this week's celebration ...
Earth Day – Plants
Sunday is Earth Day, a day for appreciating and thinking about our natural environment. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn brought a ...