local features

Many people are aware that trees can be dated by counting the layers of tree rings in a cross section. But, less folks know that fish, snails, mussels, and the teeth of many local mammal species build seasonal growth rings that are used to age individuals.

The Northwoods of Wisconsin, with its rough logging boom towns and frontier justice, saw its own share of gun smoke and violence in the early 1900s.

While most people enjoying Wisconsin's natural resources do so responsibly, that's not always the case

For three decades, The Table has been a place for people to gather and share a meal.Run out of St Augustine's Episcopal Church in Rhinelander, The Table has gone through some changes over the years but its commitment to community remains.

Horseshoe crabs are one of the strangest critters ever; they are ancient animals who have been on earth for 450 million years and have scarcely changed in all that time.

In this episode of All Things Outdoors, Wisconsin DNR Conservation Warden Tim Otto talks with WXPR's Katie Thoresen about the "king of the game birds."

In Wisconsin’s story, where tall pines once fed the logging booms, the rivers also carried life from forest to farm. Flowing from its headwaters in Forest County, the Wolf River connects the Northwood’s to central Wisconsin, and gave rise to more than timber, it gave us the Wolf River Apple, a variety that looms larger than the rest, quite literally.

The Wisconsin duck season begins this Saturday. Wisconsin DNR Conservation Warden Tim Otto talks with WXPR’s Katie Thoresen about what hunters need to know for a safe and successful hunting season.

From the iron hills of Hurley, Wisconsin, came a man who waged war not with weapons, but with secrets. Leon Lawrence Lewis, born in Hurley in 1888 to German Jewish immigrants, would one day be called the “spymaster of Los Angeles.”

In this month's installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses Ruffed Grouse – a hallmark species in the Northwoods.