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Fall Sky

Shorter days and longer nights are an invitation to stargaze. Commentator Jim Lattis tells us what’s overhead right now.

End of Season in the Garden

It’s officially fall and with the changing leaves and warm days and cool nights comes the bittersweet end to the ...

Open Water Swimming

The open water has attracted swimmers for ages. Where there’s a lake, river, channel, ocean, or bay, there’s likely a ...

American Water Spaniel

Every avid hunter needs a good dog to help find and retrieve game. Commentator Bob Willging tells us about a ...

River Rat

Today we meet Kenny Salwey, one of the last of Wisconsin’s “river rats” — people who once made their lives ...

Heirloom Tomatoes

Heirloom tomatoes are a summer treat some people wait for all year. Commentator Brett Laidlaw tells us why.  

Turing Test

Saturday, June 23rd, marks the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth the father of modern computer science. He also created ...

Trout Season

Father’s Day is this weekend. Writer Susan Lampert Smith reminisces about her father and a 65 year tradition marking the ...

Transit of Venus

Next week, we’ll be able to see one of the rarest of astronomical phenomena a transit of Venus. It’s the ...

FIBS

Memorial Day signals the start of the summer travel season. Among those taking to the Wisconsin roads will be visitors ...

Coyotes

Coyotes can be found or at least heard in every county in Wisconsin. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn sometimes hears them ...

Mother’s Day at Horicon Marsh

Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend. Every year, poet Kim Blaeser and her family celebrate by spending a day ...

Foraging For Watercress In Wisconsin’s Driftless Region

Carpets of watercress cover many Wisconsin streams and springs in the spring. The tender green leaves are a bright and ...

Birdsongs

The birds began their Spring chorus early this year… and Adam Hirsch has been trying to figure out who’s who. ...

Earth Day – Plants

Sunday is Earth Day, a day for appreciating and thinking about our natural environment. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn brought a ...