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Ohio Wildlife Diversity conference set for March
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (430+ words) Home " Nature Page & Night Sky " Ohio Wildlife Diversity conference set for March Columbus " Learn about freshwater mussels, grassland birds, native bees, Tippecanoe darters, and even more critters and fish during the 42nd annual Ohio Wildlife Diversity Conference on Wednesday, March 11, according…...
Star Watch: Back to the Moon!
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (127+ words) Home " Illinois " Star Watch: Back to the Moon! Artemis II, led by NASA, will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. It had a scheduled launch window from the Kennedy Space Center that…...
Nature Smart: Created by woodpeckers, tree cavities hold value for multiple wildlife species
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (118+ words) Home " Home Page News " Nature Smart: Created by woodpeckers, tree cavities hold value for multiple wildlife species A cavity in a tree, excavated by a woodpecker seems normal enough, but when you stop to consider it, this simple cavity in…...
University of Illinois study examines how mammal life grows with tree cover
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (110+ words) Home " Illinois " University of Illinois study examines how mammal life grows with tree cover A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign underscores the benefits of riparian buffers to terrestrial biodiversity, finding that for every 10% increase in forest cover,…...
Wisconsin's Yellow Lake sturgeon plan paying dividends
1+ week, 3+ day ago (220+ words) Burnett County's Yellow Lake sturgeon population has come a long way since the 1970s, thanks in part to a 2019 management plan and a number of regulation changes that came about since 1980. With evolutionary roots stretching back to the Cretaceous Period and…...
‘Trifecta’ of tactics helps hone in on poult survival rates for Wisconsin's wild turkeys
1+ week, 3+ day ago (137+ words) Home " Home Page News " "Trifecta" of tactics helps hone in on poult survival rates for Wisconsin"s wild turkeys Wisconsin wildlife biologists now have a new tool to measure turkey production thanks to an innovative study using trail cameras to…...
Michigan Mixed Bag: Firewood quarantine proposed to prevent introduction of invasive pests, diseases
1+ week, 6+ day ago (728+ words) Home " Michigan " Michigan Mixed Bag: Firewood quarantine proposed to prevent introduction of invasive pests, diseases Lansing " The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is inviting Michigan stakeholders to provide comments on a proposed firewood quarantine. Stakeholders can provide…...
Kentucky doubles down with invasive carp removal efforts
1+ week, 6+ day ago (494+ words) Home " National News " Kentucky doubles down with invasive carp removal efforts Frankfort, Ky. " Kentucky is planning to give fishermen an even bigger reason to target the destructive species that threaten some of the state's most popular waters, invasive carp. The…...
Star Watch: The sun, moon and tides
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (119+ words) Home " Illinois " Star Watch: The sun, moon and tides The Moon's gravitational pull on Earth, combined with other forces, causes our surface water to be redistributed into bulges on the side closest and the side farthest from the Moon. These…...
Data center in Pennsylvania seeks approval to discharge cooling water into Susquehanna River
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (121+ words) Home " Home Page News " Data center in Pennsylvania seeks approval to discharge cooling water into Susquehanna River A data center in northeastern Pennsylvania is seeking approval from the state to discharge used cooling water into the Susquehanna River. The facility…...