Tag: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Sustained by Students: The Volunteers Keeping Campus Bat Monitoring Alive

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At 8 pm, the Lakeshore Nature Preserve is already pitch-black. Makeela Magomolla greets me near the entrance, armed with a headlamp and backpack, and we make our way down the path. By now, I’ve already missed sunset, the ideal time to see bats exiting the bat roost— which is hardly a 2-minute walk from the …

The Northwoods Research Ecosystem Protecting Our Lakes

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If you’re outside the orbit of the Center for Limnology, you might not have heard of TLS. In the Northwoods, though, it’s an established, and popular, part of the landscape. And yet, many on campus don’t know that UW–Madison operates a field station conducting long-term research on Wisconsin’s lakes far from the shores most students …