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For the last 15 years, Charlie Tennessn has been trying to grow as much food as he consumes on his four-acre homestead. His new film, Night of the Living Harvest, is premiering this week at the Times Cinema in Wauwatosa, and he is hoping it inspires others to homestead.
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EPA Secretary Michael Regan chose Milwaukee to announce hundreds of millions of funding to clean up brownfields across the country Thursday. Regan called the 30th Street Corridor parcel he visited "a shining star opportunity."
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UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences' students study complex freshwater ecosystems, weather patterns, and climate change and then apply that knowledge to real-world problems. One of the school's founding faculty members, Rebecca Klaper, is about to become the school's dean.
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Black bear sightings are on the rise in southern Wisconsin. Over the last couple of weeks, black bears have been spotted in Waukesha County, Mount Horeb and in the Madison area.
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Eddee Daniel, a Wauwatosa resident, shares his nature photography through blogs and books, primarily as project director for a Milwaukee-based nonprofit called Preserve Our Parks.
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Milwaukee’s rivers, which converge downtown and feed into Lake Michigan, were once dumping grounds for industrial pollution. But this spring and summer, recreation and commerce will have to share sections of the lower Milwaukee River with dredging equipment.
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It’s not unusual for artists to use their talents to evoke a certain emotion or create a connection. Writers, of course, do too. A couple in far northern Wisconsin fuse the two.
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We explore a natural area in southwest Wisconsin. The Kickapoo Valley Reserve not only features trout streams and water coming down over rock ledges but also holds great Indigenous significance.
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In 1992 wildlife biologist David Allen came to Green Bay to help orchestrate the removal of chemicals from the Fox River. Journalist Susan Campbell covered the complex story. They chronicle a decades long, hotly contested PCB clean up.
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Advocates say a large conservation project proposed in northern Wisconsin makes both financial and ecological sense, but this week a state Legislative committee denied stewardship funding. It’s a complicated story that illustrates Wisconsin’s cloudy conservation funding landscape.