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By Lela Nargi for the Food and Environment Reporting Network.Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Wisconsin News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration In 2002, Deirdre Birmingham and her husband, John Biondi, bought a 166-acre farm in southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region. On a portion of that land — once used to raise cattle and grow feed crops like corn, soybeans, and alfalfa — they planted apple and pear trees to make fermented ciders. On a larger, spring-fed portion, abutting the orchard and en route to ...

To get there, you head up the Pete Creek Road #338 in the Yaak (no one seems to know who Pete was, and I’m keen to know the name the first people ca...

A federal district judge has ordered an end to a large-scale industrial logging project in Northwest Montana, a critical part of the state's endangered grizzly bear habitat. The section of the Kootenai National Forest has been a center of contention between conservation groups and developers for years. Now, a judge has ruled developers did not do a thorough assessment of the effect a 30-mile-long road would have on 11,000 acres of the habitat for the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear population. ...

The decision halts the Ripley Project on the Kootenai National Forest, which anticipated 10 to 20 years of commercial timber work.

Griz killed; Fish and Game says ID target before firing