Key Colorado River conservation deadline arrives, with no consensus on the horizon
Monday marked a key deadline for Colorado River states to propose consensual plants for long-term water conservation in overtaxed systems. However, such an agreement was not on the table once the deadline set by the Home Office’s Bureau of Reclamation arrived. Instead, his two main branches of the river system, the upper and lower reaches, […]
Conservation groups sue to stop a transmission line from crossing a Mississippi River refuge
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A coalition of conservation groups has filed a last-minute federal lawsuit seeking to halt plans to build the high-voltage Cardinal Hickory Creek power line across a Mississippi River wildlife refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest, and Dairyland Power Cooperative Inc. want to build a 102-mile (164-kilometer), 345-kilovolt transmission line between Dubuque […]
20/20 vision for wildlife habitat conservation
A good forestry education teaches students the importance of the long game and the truth of the Greek proverb: “A society grows when it plants a tree on which the old man never sits in the shade.” A good engineering education teaches that science and mathematics are great tools in the toolbox, but that they […]
Gov. Evers secures funding for Wisconsin’s largest land conservation purchase
Gov. Tony Evers has secured federal funding for the largest land conservation purchase in Wisconsin history. The project includes the purchase of approximately 70,000 acres of land in northern Wisconsin known as the Pelican River Forest. Republicans on the House Budget Committee had previously blocked administrative funding for the project over concerns about the economic […]