Learn about efforts to evaluate and compare habitat characteristics across breeding areas throughout Wisconsin, work that will provide guidance for wetland management and selection of future crane release sites.
In some low-nutrient wetlands, plants reverse the food chain and become carnivorous to meet their needs.
Some aquatic insects, including certain stoneflies, mayflies, caddisflies, and non-biting midges, complete their life cycles and emerge from water bodies as active adults only during the winter season.
Restoration of degraded peatlands in Wisconsin could cut 2.3 million metric tons of CO₂ annually—roughly equal to removing 500,000 cars from the road—while safeguarding biodiversity, filtering water, and protecting communities from floods and fire.
While our legislative work may have the highest profile, in recent years we have also invested heavily to build collaborations that help state and local agencies integrate wetland priorities into existing programs.