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Spring Warblers

Spring warblers are beginning to make their way through Wisconsin right now. Today, writer Mary Ellen Gabriel recalls the spring ...

Wisconsin Innovations: Transplants

Wisconsin ingenuity is on display in a new exhibition at the State Historical Museum in Madison. From the typewriter to ...

Nettles

Wild nettles are abundant in the spring as many of us learn the hard way after a painful sting. But ...

Driftless Fish Fry

Today is Good Friday, and the last Lenten fish fry of the season. Commentator Krista Eastman remembers fish fry Fridays ...

Sturgeon Thunder

Sturgeon spawning season is underway in Wisconsin’s northern rivers and it’s a sight to behold. The sturgeon is an ancient ...

Biking to School

For many of us, spring is the start of biking season in Wisconsin. But a few hardy souls bike in ...

Sugaring Season

March is sugaring season in Wisconsin. When the liquid gold of nature starts flowing from the state's maple trees, it's ...

Seeds

Winter is daydreaming time for gardeners. As seed catalogs start piling up in mailboxes, visions of plum tomatoes dance in ...

Owls

It’s a banner year for bird watchers. Thousands of great snowy owls have headed south in recent weeks, showing up ...

Wisconsin’s Sturgeon

This weekend is the start of sturgeon season in Wisconsin. These ancient lake fish are millions of years old and ...

Going Molecular

On a U.W. campus, a chemistry research group is investigating events so tiny and so fast, they can’t be seen ...

Bacon

What gets you through a Wisconsin winter? Commentator Brett Laidlaw says when the temperature plunges and the snow piles up, ...

Metaphors

The New Year reminds us that the Earth is also beginning something new — a new journey around the sun. ...

Winter’s Night Sky

The winter solstice is honored by many traditions as a sacred time. It’s also an occasion to enjoy the wonders ...

Dog Walk in the Dark

Darkness descends earlier and earlier in Wisconsin as fall slowly gives way to winter. And with that loss of light, ...