In case you missed the news the last couple of days, around 400,000 residents of the city of Toledo, Ohio were advised to completely avoid the city’s drinking water thanks to a bloom of a …
Madison lakes
Video: State of the Yahara Lakes – 2013
As we enter field season here at the Center for Limnology and people all over Madison are pulling their tackle boxes out of the garage and their boats out of storage, we’d like to showcase …
Yahara Pride Tackles Runoff at Its Source
The latest issue of Madison’s Capital Times has an excellent cover story exploring a new effort to reduce the amount of phosphorus that ends up in Madison lakes. As the article points out – each …
Wordless Wednesday – Take 7
Another week, another winner! Blog follower “Gator” heaves a last-second desperation shot at the buzzer and wins it all (note: “it” ain’t much!) with the caption: The Carp Curl Since the “fish weighs more than …
Fishing in the Dark
A few weeks ago, a team of students and staff headed out on Lake Mendota well after sundown. The group was taking a yearly census of fish populations in Lake Mendota, one of several Wisconsin …