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2:11 From fish and wildlife habitat to natural water purifiers, wetlands play a crucial role in human and environmental health. Last year, the Clean Water Rule was replaced by the Navigable Waters Protection Rule which modified the Waters of the Unites States definition in the Clean Waters Act. The rule change means that lakes, streams, some tributaries, and wetlands adjacent to those remain protected, but excludes other streams and isolated wetlands. It’s a change the Wisconsin Nature Conservancy’s Director of Science and Strategy Nick Miller says was not based on science. “When the Na...

1:47 Gov. Tony Evers wants to get idle paper mills in Park Falls and Wisconsin Rapids running again. He’s included millions of dollars in loans as part of a $1 billion special spending package to do that. The paper mill in Park Falls has only been operational for a few months since first shutting down in 2019, and last June, Verso announced it was stopping production at its Wisconsin Rapids mill. Those moves came at the cost of hundreds of jobs. But on Wednesday, Evers announced he will call the legislature into special session to consider spending $1 billion to help the state’s economic ...

General Atlantic Legal tech investments: Evisort Growth equity giant General Atlantic, which has invested in buzzy fintech startups like Albert and Chime, made its first foray into legal tech in February, leading the $35 million Series B of Evisort, a contract life cycle management company. "Prior to COVID, the legal landscape was a traditional, paper-based industry ripe for disruption," said Alex Crisses, a managing director at the firm. "We see the automation o...

5:42 A florist cuts lush, green stems to the proper bouquet length in a well-lit work area. Nearby, her coworker snips sharp thorns off of a rose about to go into an arrangement. At the same time, Josh Jameson takes yet another phone call, chatting easily with a customer. Jameson manages Flowers from the Heart on 5th, situated on 5th Avenue in the center of Antigo’s downtown. Last year, the flower shop opened downtown and then moved to this new, bigger space next door just three weeks ago. The flower cooler in the new location has the capacity to hold hundreds or thousands of flowers ready ...

5:48 On Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips. Inside, hundreds of harvested cannabis plants hung on lines to dry. The image was something like an upside-down Christmas tree farm. Each is a variety of hemp, rich in the therapeutic substance cannabidiol, or CBD. They have little or no THC. That is, you can’t get high on anything grown here. Hemp plants hang to dry in the barn. Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Steps away, inside the century-old farmhouse, Joe’s partner, Marisa Budej, tended to the seed-producing “mother...