Wetland Coffee Break: How do beavers impact water?
Conservation Biologist Cortney Dean takes a look at the data, challenges, and unexpected findings of beaver-water research in northwestern Wisconsin.
Wetland Coffee Break: Coexisting with beavers to increase wetland functionality and support biodiversity
Restoration ecologist Clay Frazer will discuss beaver behavior and how having beavers on the landscape can improve water quality, mitigate flooding, support biodiversity, and increase wetland functionality.
Wetland Coffee Break: Bioacoustic evidence that bats benefit from beaver ponds
Wisconsin’s beaver management policies are primarily aimed at benefiting the state’s trout populations. But what if beaver ponds are ideal habitats for threatened and endangered species like the bats of Wisconsin?
Turtles every Wisconsin wetland lover should know
Do you know your turtles? Use this short guide to help you identify the four turtles in Wisconsin that are most closely associated with wetlands.
Wetland Coffee Break: The fur trade and the north woods environment
Between 1630 and 1830, fur hunters exterminated more than 95 percent of the region’s beaver population. In this talk, Hayden Nelson shares how the historical overhunting of beavers substantially altered the forested wetlands around Lake Superior.