Wetland Coffee Break: Exploring the eco-cultural relationships of beaver and wild rice: hydrological and cultural perspectives
Learn more about research aimed at better understanding the impact that beavers and wild rice have on one another.
Wetland Coffee Break: Nest site selection for Whooping Cranes in Wisconsin wetlands
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.
Wetland Coffee Break: Common Carex of wet open ground
Genus Carex, the true sedges, form a fascinating and diverse group of plants. An evolutionary success story, Carex is the most species-rich genus in Wisconsin with over 150 species. This introductory talk will focus on field identification characteristics of widely...
Wetland Coffee Break: Carnivorous plants of the Northwoods
In some low-nutrient wetlands, plants reverse the food chain and become carnivorous to meet their needs.
Wetland Coffee Break: Bugs Below Zero: The secret lives of winter active insects
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.
Wetland Coffee Break: Wisconsin’s peatlands: Carbon powerhouses for climate action
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.