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By Casey Nelson May 13, 2021 | 1:16 PM BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ) – The Village of Bellevue is beginning a series of controlled burns on Friday. “It’s actually going to be quite low key. There’s not going to be Green Bay metro fire department trucks there, it’s actually an environmental crew is doing the burn,” said Village Administrator Diane Wessel. “This is a controlled burn to cut back the non native species it actually improves the wildlife habitat…We will be doing this in several areas around the village. All communities do this for keeping that habitat good and keeping...

U.S. EPA launches a Kickapoo River watershed study VILLAGE TREATMENT PLANTS up and down the Kickapoo River Valley could benefit from a study launched recently by U.S. EPA. The study aims to identify non-engineering solutions to the phosphorous limit problems the local utilities have been experiencing in recent years. KICKAPOO RIVER VALLEY - Cissy Ma, research engineer with U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development in Cincinnati, Ohio, led a virtual kick-off meeting for a ‘Kickapoo River Watershed Integrated Management Study’ on Thursday, Feb. 4 �...

Losing crucial Kansas habitat, federal agency to decide whether to protect Monarchs Sarah Spicer, The Wichita Eagle Dec. 14—This week, a decision is expected as to whether the Monarch, the famously recognizable orange and black colored butterfly, will receive endangered species status in the U.S. Perhaps considered "native Kansans," Eastern Monarchs lay vast proportions of their offspring in the state, their caterpillars depending on Kansas' native milkweed as their sole food source. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to decide by Dec. 15 if the Monarch's plummet...