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    <description><![CDATA[Before the ice moved in, the Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa Community and Wisconsin DNR staff spread more than 400 pounds of wild rice seed on Spur Lake in Oneida County. Part of the strategy with this year’s seeding was how to best protect against waterfowl.]]></description>
    
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    <description><![CDATA[Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to clean up waste.It’s been used across the U.S. on sites like landfills, mines, and urban brownfields.The U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Lab in Rhinelander has become a leader in a specific phytoremediation method. It’s been working to share that method with Forest Service partners around the world.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to clean up waste.It’s been…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Habitat destruction is the driving force behind pollinator population…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Nearly 70,000 acres in Oneida, Forest, and Langlade Counties are under…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The time of year - spring - is but one important factor playing into the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>Blackwell Job Corps pilots conservation education program for students</title>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Trees for Tomorrow in Eagle River has several invasive species it’s working to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Katie Thoresen</itunes:author>
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    <description><![CDATA[In northern Iron County sits more than 3,000 acres of a largely undeveloped flowage along the west branch of the Montreal River.The Gile Flowage will remain that way after the county is set to receive more than $4 million in federal funding to conserve it.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In northern Iron County sits more than 3,000 acres of a largely undeveloped…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Katie Thoresen</itunes:author>
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    <description><![CDATA[For WXPR’s The Stream, Hannah Davis-Reid spoke with environmental experts about how the USDA's land management plan revisions impacts the Chequamegon- Nicolet National Forest.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:18:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[For WXPR’s The Stream, Hannah Davis-Reid spoke with environmental experts about…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>Emerald Ash Borer is here to stay. These researchers are working to control the population and protect ecosystems. </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash tree population in the U.S. since the early 2000s.The invasive species has slowly been making its way north in Wisconsin and Michigan.Researchers with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station are working to get the species under control while also trying to restore ecosystems that have been destroy by them.]]></description>
    
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    <itunes:title>Emerald Ash Borer is here to stay. These researchers are working to control the population and protect ecosystems. </itunes:title>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash tree population in the U.S. since the early…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <description><![CDATA[The upper Midwest rarely sees the type of high-intensity, destructive wildfires that the west coast sees, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen here.The Ottawa National Forest works to make sure if such a fire happened in the U.P., people and homes have the best chance of surviving.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The upper Midwest rarely sees the type of high-intensity, destructive wildfires…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <description><![CDATA[For more than a decade now, the Lac du Flambeau School District has brought back a piece of Ojibwe culture that had been missing for nearly two centuries. The Winter Games give students a chance to learn about their culture while having some fun. But a growing concern is how climate change may impact the games.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[For more than a decade now, the Lac du Flambeau School District has brought…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Katie Thoresen</itunes:author>
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    <description><![CDATA[while the higher than average temperatures we’ve been experiencing this winter are because of El Niño, Vavrus says Wisconsin has also been experiencing warmer winters due to climate change, with the last 25 years generally well above normal compared with previous years.]]></description>
    
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    <description><![CDATA[A group of college students from Milwaukee are spending this week at Kemp Natural Resources Station at Woodruff.They’re collecting data and testing their hypotheses.The catch? They’re not science students.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A group of college students from Milwaukee are spending this week at Kemp…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Katie Thoresen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>335</itunes:duration>






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    <description><![CDATA[For decades, the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.P. was home to more than 100 copper mines.One of the byproducts of that is stamp sands, the practice of crushing rock and extracting heavy metals.Remnants of it are still found throughout the peninsula.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:09:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[For decades, the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.P. was home to more than 100…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Katie Thoresen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>331</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Mapping tools could help forest managers get ahead of invasive species</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There are numerous insects that threaten the health of forests.One of the greatest challenges is finding them fast enough to stop the pests before they do irreversible damage.For WXPR’s The Stream, Katie Thoresen spoke with a Rhinelander-based scientist leading a project to try and meet this challenge.It’s part two of our series highlighting local researchers who have received Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:24:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[There are numerous insects that threaten the health of forests.One of the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Katie Thoresen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>248</itunes:duration>






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