News Feeds

17 April 2025

• Seeing wetlands as a flood solution drove bipartisan support in Wisconsin. Why not elsewhere?
  Damaging floods are now so common in the states that border the Mississippi River, including Wisconsin, that the issue can’t be ignored.
• Want to know if wetlands, so important to the environment, are healthy? Look to the birds.
  Over the last 20 years, wetlands have been losing their most ardent advocates, especially in states like Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• Vital to wildlife, water quality and flood defense, wetlands are losing ground. Literally.
  The states that border the Mississippi River have lost at least half of the wetlands they once had, including Wisconsin.
• Conservationists want to track voles at wetlands
  Conservationists have called on people to look for water voles that were reintroduced at a nature reserve last year. A total of 116 water voles that were bred in captivity were released at Nene...
• Wisconsin has 6 million acres of wetlands. Here are the internationally important ones.
  From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands. Here's how to see them.