10 peatland bryophytes you should know
Bryophytes are non-vascular plants such as mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
Wetland Coffee Break: Floristic quality benchmarks for rare and unique wetland plant communities
Ryan O’Connor (WDNR) shares what makes rare wetland plant communities like white pine-red maple swamps and interdunal wetlands unique, what threats they are facing, and more.
What are floodplains? Managing misconceptions about healthy flooding
Learn how floodplains function and why healthy floodplains are an important part of reducing flood damages.
Wisconsin Wetlands: The Ice Age Connection
In Wisconsin, we owe much of our modern landscape of wetlands, ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers to the last ice age when a vast ice sheet reshaped the land, and ultimately reorganized surface and groundwater systems.
Wetland Coffee Break: Starhead Topminnow: The rare star of the backwaters of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Young ichthyologist Madeline Cleveland shares her knowledge of this state endangered species’ natural history, the threats it faces, and conservation efforts being made to preserve it.