EMMA KUKUK and RACHEL COALE
A blue-spotted salamander looks for a hiding place after being discovered beneath a woodpile. (Photo courtesy of the DNR)
Envision standing under a forest canopy of countless leaves, hiking through a field spangled with native wildflowers, digging your toes into the sand of a Great Lakes beach or watching colorful warblers as they flit through your backyard.
Although we often think of ourselves as going “into” and “away from” nature, there’s a fundamental shift in perspective when we consider the fact that we are nature. We can shape the world around us.
Earth Day is today, April 22, which each year commemorates the anniversary of the modern environmental movement’s birth in 1970.
MADISON - A network of farms in Oconto, Marinette and Shawano counties aiming to demonstrate environmentally sustainable farming practices has been launched through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
NRCS formed the Green Bay West Shore Demonstration Farm Network in collaboration with the Oconto County Land & Water Conservation Department, in partnership with Marinette and Shawano counties.
The farms involved will demonstrate the best conservation practices to reduce phosphorus entering the Great Lakes basin and address the effectiveness of current conservation systems used to reduce nonpoint source pollution.
“This project will showcase the adoption of environmentally sustainable farming practices by demonstrating their successful use on these four demonstration farms and providing other producers the opportunities to learn and adopt these practices successfully on their farms,” said Ken Dolata, head of the Oconto County Land Conservation Department.
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After years of measuring mercury in the estuary muck, in the fish and in the rain falling from the sky, scientists now say they know the culprit: Huge amounts of decades-old “legacy” mercury pollution stored in the sediment is still getting into the fish.
In a study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, published online March 13, scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Duluth laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey and several other institutions used isotope “fingerprinting’’ to trace mercury in the fish all the way back to its source, differentiating old legacy mercury from new mercury falling from the sky.
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