This week on Earthlinks, Deb Biechler takes a trip up to the Necedah Wildlife refuge. Deb is a writer and environmentalist from Waterloo, Wisconsin. Each week, she’ll update us on the plants, animals, and wild areas of southern Wisconsin – and the critical issues affecting their – and our – homes. Tthe Necedah Wildlife refuge is […]
The largest archive of wildlife sounds is free and online
In this interview with Greg Budney, collections curator at Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, producer Will Cushman learns about the library’s wildlife sound archive. It’s the largest archive of wildlife sounds in the world, and it’s online and free to explore.
Wisconsin Artist Has Big Hopes for His 'Concrete Nests'
Ben Zoltak has been an artist all his life, experimenting with countless forms and mediums over the years. But his most recent endeavor involves a towering mass of concrete, a mosaic of recycled junk, and an increasingly threatened bird species. Ben plans to build enormous sculptures all around the country to serve as nesting locations […]
Foxes and Coyotes Among Us
Those yips and whoops you hear in the night might just be Fido’s wild cousins. David Drake and Marcus Mueller from the UW’s Urban Canid program join us to tell us more.
What's Living in Your Belly Button?
Think biological field work, and most people think of exotic Amazonian rainforests or the Serengeti plains of Africa. Few think of the plethora of things living in our own backyard, in our homes, even in our armpits and bellybuttons. Rob Dunn works as a biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina […]
