Atmospheric PFAS is falling as rain even far away from industrial sites. Plus, a nonprofit has identified 42,000 places in the U.S. as possible PFAS sites.

Ambling down a path through the forest to a serene lake, Greg Krueger explains why he likes this area.“This is a really nice place. You have a really…

A point of land, sitting on the north side of the Vista Flowage, was Zeke Jonas’ favorite spot.Sometimes, his mother Rene Rayala said, he’d come to watch…

On a pleasant morning last week, Sara Sommer and Chris Ester paddled to the deepest point of Luna Lake, a 64-acre lake in northern Forest County…

On Monday, John Lampereur guided his white U.S. Forest Service pickup truck over bumpy dirt roads in northern Oconto County near Lakewood.“This would be…

Steph Shaw starts the outboard motor of the small, flatbottomed boat, and takes off toward the middle of Katherine Lake in Hazelhurst.Dropping an anchor,…

Last week, ground-penetrating radar sensors glided across the grass near Rhinelander wells 7 and 8, attached to a customized four-wheeled cart.UW-Madison…

Ryder Fox pushes a wheelbarrow full of gravel down a path through the Argonne Experimental Forest near Hiles. He dumps it into a frame where his fellow…

To Ryan Hanson, the proposal for a new building just west of Rhinelander just isn’t that complicated.“The actual transfer station is really nothing more…

A walk in Rhinelander’s Holmboe Conifer Forest requires a stop every few steps to hear or see a new amphibian.On a recent stroll, Ted Anchor of the…