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Series: Managing Japanese Beetles

Wisconsin's Top 10 Trends Of 2017 For Insects (And Other Pests)

PJ Liesch
UW-Extension
When it comes to these blood-sucking pests and other creepy-crawlies, each year can be a different experience, with weather patterns and other factors playing important roles in the behaviors of insects and other arthropods like spiders and millipedes, as well as other invertebrates.
Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

Why One Scientist Has Divergent Views On Wisconsin's Great Lakes Diversions

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Supporting one high-profile Great Lakes diversion and opposing another might seem contradictory, but UW-Parkside geosciences professor John Skalbeck clearly sees no tension in his positions.

Underwater Footage Reveals Lake Michigan's Invasive Mussel Problem

Kate Habrel
Great Lakes Echo
Scientists using GoPro cameras in Lake Michigan have found the lakebed coated in invasive quagga mussels.
Series: Waukesha And Lake Michigan Water

The Battles That Shaped Great Lakes Water Politics

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Two centuries of urbanization and industrialization around the Great Lakes have often hinged on tension among those who've desired their extraordinary supplies of fresh water.

Highest Earners Have Seen Most Benefits of 2010s Wisconsin Tax Cuts

Teodor Teofilov
The Observatory
How much of an impact have tax cuts had on individual Wisconsinites — and whom?
Series: Waukesha And Lake Michigan Water
Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

When Great Lakes Water Is 'Public' And When It Isn't

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Community members and advocacy groups opposing the bid by Foxconn and the city of Racine for Lake Michigan water are zeroing on a specific issue: The request amounts to a water utility sourcing the Great Lakes almost entirely for the use of one private company.

The Inspirations Behind Wisconsin's '50 Miles More' March

Will Kenneally
PBS Wisconsin
A 50-mile march from Madison to Janesville intentionally sought to emulate the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the 54-mile marches in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
Series: The Dairy State Economy

Pushing Back On Despair Among Western Wisconsin's Dairy Farmers

Scott Gordon
WisContext
As the dairy industry struggles with low prices in the face of a long-mounting milk glut, more farmers are finding that their woes are escalating.
Series: Growing Container Gardens

Starting Seeds Indoors Jumpstarts The Growing Season

Vijai Pandian
UW-Extension
Growing vegetables from seeds started indoors can be fun and rewarding.

How Americans Forgot And Rediscovered The Values Of Farmers' Markets

Samantha Nash
PBS Wisconsin
In a highly connected age of smartphone shopping and new automated grocery delivery services, a trip to a local farmers' market can seem like an anachronistic journey to the past.