Great Lakes Commission
Ozaukee County’s main marina in Port Washington, Wisconsin, received a shipment of 60,000 salmon from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in preparation for the summer’s charter fishing ventures. Read […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Minnesota and Wisconsin are bitter rivals at just about everything. So in 2019, when Wisconsin’s secretary of tourism claimed Wisconsin had more lakes than Minnesota, the embers of an age-old debate were stoked. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, but does Wisconsin really have more?
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The Kenosha Sportfishing and Conservation Association received 40,000 chinook salmon fingerlings from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources at the Kenosha Salmon Rearing Pond. The nonprofit group is working to […]
Great Lakes Commission
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources crews operating the Root River Steelhead Facility in Racine this spring have processed a record number of steelhead, or rainbow trout. Fertilized eggs from the […]
Great Lakes Commission
The Wisconsin Supreme Court could hear a case in the coming years centered around Enbridge Energy’s reroute of the pipeline known as Line 5. About 12 miles of the pipeline […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Cougars are making a comeback. The iconic wildcat hasn’t had a breeding population in the Great Lakes states since the early 1900s, but now they’re moving east. Experts say they could be back soon. Some people swear they already are.
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Birding enthusiasts in Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states can meet the sunrise at wetlands and other locations Saturday morning for the 48th annual Midwest Crane Count, which aims to […]
Great Lakes Commission
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking data on the water quality of the state’s lakes, streams and rivers. Along with DNR data, submitted data will be used […]
Great Lakes Commission
The Friends of Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary have announced a new program aimed at sharing the history of the Great Lakes. The First Annual Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast International […]
Great Lakes Commission
Wisconsin seems to be a consequence-free place to ditch a boat. Since Oct. 13, the owner of a local salvage company has been the only person who has shown any […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Inside rustic cabins and yurts at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park there are log books. For more than 70 years, visitors have written in them. We went into this time capsule to see if people’s experiences here had changed much over the changing decades.