Certain species of ticks and mosquitoes can carry various diseases. In Wisconsin, Lyme disease is becoming more common with nearly 6,500 cases reported last year, with many cases reported in the Northwoods. The state sees spikes of illnesses from Powassan and West...
By Associated Press August 16, 2025 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin. A hunter scouting for deer first sighted the bird Sunday in a remote section of the Mud Lake...
By Cassidy Grubusic Did you know there are more than 700 known shipwrecks in the Wisconsin Great Lakes? And while some are beginning to disappear, many are remarkably well-preserved due to the fresh, frigid lake waters. Every year, people from all over the...
Building a dam leads to the creation of enormous artificial lakes known as reservoirs. They are used to store water later used to supply households and businesses, as well as for collecting water that generates hydroelectricity. Moreover, many of these bodies of water...
“It's been a very strange year.” Wild Instincts Wildlife Rehabilitation Director Mark Naniot says this year will likely be right up there with the record number of animal admissions. That’s not the strange part. “Not as many songbirds, like I said, a lot more mammals...
Who doesn’t love a lake? They’re the perfect place to idle the day away swimming, boating, waterskiing, or fishing. But what exactly defines a lake? Scientists and government agencies differ on which bodies of water count as big enough to be considered a lake, and...
Eurasian water milfoil, curly leaf pondweed, and spiny water fleas are a couple aquatic invasive species known to have found their way into some lakes in the Northwoods. “It's definitely not a losing battle,” said Emily Heald, the Rivers Educator with UW Madison...
In 1968, the U.S. government passed the National Trails System Act, which called for the creation of publicly accessible trails in urban and rural settings across the country in order to promote appreciation and enjoyment of the great American outdoors. These trails...
Snapshot Wisconsin is celebrating two major milestones. This year marks the 10-year anniversary and the collection of 100 million photos. Snapshot Wisconsin is a wildlife photo collection project through the Wisconsin DNR. It utilizes a statewide network of...
As a homesteader and manager of the Northwoods Community Garden and Permaculture Training Center, Mike Haasl has incorporated permaculture in a lot of different ways. “Like in my homestead, I've got chickens, so my food scraps go to the chickens, the chicken outputs...