Episodes

  • People from around the world come to Rhinelander to learn how to best use plants to clean up waste

    People from around the world come to Rhinelander to learn how to best use plants to clean up waste
    Sep 26 2024
    Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to clean up waste.It’s been used across the U.S. on sites like landfills, mines, and urban brownfields.The U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Lab in Rhinelander has become a leader in a specific phytoremediation method. It’s been working to share that method with Forest Service partners around the world.
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    6 mins
  • The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe will grow culturally significant plants at Forest Service nursery as part of unique partnership

    The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe will grow culturally significant plants at Forest Service nursery as part of unique partnership
    Sep 19 2024
    The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe will begin growing medicinal and culturally significant plants at the J. W. Toumey Nursery in the Ottawa National Forest.It’s a first-of-its-kind partnership in the U.S.
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    6 mins
  • Lac Vieux Desert Tribe works to restore wild rice and walleye on Lake Lac Vieux Desert

    Lac Vieux Desert Tribe works to restore wild rice and walleye on Lake Lac Vieux Desert
    Aug 15 2024
    The Ojibwe have long looked to Lake Lac Vieux Desert for its food sources.But there’s been major declines in wild rice and walleye in recent years that impact the Lac Vieux Desert Tribe’s food sovereignty.The tribe is now working with the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest on a project to help improve the two species populations.
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    6 mins
  • Researchers are working towards more accurate wildfire smoke forecasting to help improve health and air quality

    Researchers are working towards more accurate wildfire smoke forecasting to help improve health and air quality
    Jul 15 2024
    Dozens of wildfires burning hundreds of thousands of acres are currently burning out west in both the U.S. and Canada.The last few summers brought smoke from fires just like them to the Northwoods, dropping air quality to some of the worst levels seen in the region in years.
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    6 mins
  • Burned out: why (and how) northern Wisconsin will soon abandon coal as a power source

    Burned out: why (and how) northern Wisconsin will soon abandon coal as a power source
    Jul 5 2024
    In April, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that will force American coal plants to either close or cut back 90 percent of their carbon emissions.
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    5 mins
  • How to save a park: the rebirth of Town Line Lake Park

    How to save a park: the rebirth of Town Line Lake Park
    Jun 13 2024
    Just a few years ago, the very existence of Town Line Lake Park was in jeopardy.
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    4 mins
  • 'No Mow May' can be successful, but maybe not in the ways you think

    'No Mow May' can be successful, but maybe not in the ways you think
    Jun 3 2024
    Habitat destruction is the driving force behind pollinator population decline.In response, the No Mow May movement started about five years ago to encourage people to leave some flowers for the bees in early spring.
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    5 mins
  • Supporters gather to celebrate Pelican River Forest conservation

    Supporters gather to celebrate Pelican River Forest conservation
    May 23 2024
    Nearly 70,000 acres in Oneida, Forest, and Langlade Counties are under conservation easements to be protected in perpetuity.The Pelican River Forest is praised by conservationists for protecting increasingly rare contiguous forestland in the state.
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    5 mins