Brunet Island Park Series Adds Eight Weeks of Heritage Talks
A June 27 to August 15 speaker series at Brunet Island State Park in Cornell will explore Chippewa Valley heritage including logging, Ojibwa culture, and regional history. Free admission, park entry requires a state park sticker. Speakers mostly from Mt. Senario College. Schedule spans June 27 to August 15 with topics on lumber camps, glaciers, folklore, Ojibwa heritage, and regional history. Park is 40 miles northeast of Eau Claire. For details call 715-239-6888.
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Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin
Brunet Island State Park
Wisconsin Humanities Committee
Park
Eau Claire
Park Pavilion
Cornell
Chippewa County
Dan Edelstein
Edelstein
Paul Meszaros
Mt. Senario College
Ladysmith
Dana Jackson
Mt. Senario
DNR and co-op agree on well renovation near fertilizer plant
Wautoma FS Cooperative will replace or deepen at least eight wells near its fertilizer plant in Waushara County after a DNR order to address high nitrate levels. The co-op denied responsibility but agreed to install or deepen wells by early July while the DNR continues neighborhood water testing.
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FS Cooperative
Wautoma
Waushara
DNR
Co-Op
FS Co-op
Mexican wolf breeds in captivity for first time
After multiple failures a female Mexican wolf in captivity at the Wild Canid Survival and Research Center in St. Louis produced four pups on May 20. Three of the pups are females, to be paired with six males from the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson, as part of a staged breeding program for the endangered subspecies.
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California
St. Louis
Sonoran Desert Museum
Tucson
Ariz
United States
Canada
Mexico
Large Wisconsin fur trafficking crackdown nets eleven defendants
DNR wardens concluded one of Wisconsin's largest illegal fur trafficking cases after a year and a half of investigation. Eleven individuals faced 44 counts of illegal fur possession and sale with fines and restitution totaling 7,138.95 dollars.
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DNR
Wisconsin
DNR Bureau of Law Enforcement
Phillips and
Crandon
Natural Resources Board to meet in Eau Claire this week
The Wisconsin State Natural Resources Board will hold its regular monthly meetings in Eau Claire today and tomorrow in the County Board Room of the Eau Claire County Courthouse. Appointed by the governor, it acts as the DNR policy body and will discuss fishing regulations, hunting rules, wetlands legislation, water quality permits, endangered species rules, land acquisitions such as Beef River in Trempealeau, and other items. The meetings are open to the public.
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Eau Claire
State Natural Resources Board
Eau Claire County
The
DNR
Madison
Beef River
Trempealeau County
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Victor Macaruso
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Paul Opler
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Polk-Burnett Beekeepers Association
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Gilman Enterprise
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Missouri
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Flint Gilbert
Alton Ison
Richard Thiel
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Monico
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Rural Park Falls
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Kenneth A. Woodie
Butternut
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Rt. 4
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