Stories indexed under: Forestry
Total: 3
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Slide show: The Tree Doctor
Sept. 21, 2010
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Conservation areas threatened nationally by housing development
Dec. 28, 2009
Conservationists have long known that lines on a map are not sufficient to protect nature because what happens outside those boundaries can affect what happens within. Now, a study by two University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists in the department of forest and wildlife ecology measures the threat of housing development around protected areas in the United States.
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Fighting the Grinch who stole Wisconsin's Christmas trees
Dec. 15, 2009
An entomology research team from UW-Madison aims to squash a grub that plagues as many as one-third of Wisconsin’s approximately 1,100 Christmas tree farms.