by Cassie Gauthier — When you are at a lake, do you ever stop to consider the plants growing along the shoreline, or in the water as you drive past in your boat, or next to your feet as you swim? Have you ever considered why the plant is there, how it might be helping …
by Cassie Gauthier – When you think of a beautiful natural area, what do you imagine? Maybe you think of a lake at the top of a mountain with clear water and tall pine trees creating beautiful green reflections along the shoreline. Or maybe a desert with lizards scurrying around in the hot sun under …
Once again, we’ve made it to another Friday! And that means it’s time for Water We Talking About? Kids have questions and we track down a scientist with an answer. Today Lukas asks about a certain critter most people associate with the oceans… The Question: Do we have freshwater jellyfish in Wisconsin? And, if so, …
by Sydney Widell — Howe Lake is hard to get to. It lies at the end of a narrow, rutted-out dirt road, ten miles from the nearest town. And it’s not just physical distance that makes it so challenging to visit. Howe Lake sits in the Huron Mountain Club, a gated retreat and old growth …
by Sydney Widell If you’ve never heard of Littorella, you are definitely not alone. Incredibly rare, this grassy aquatic plant only graces the beds of a few select lakes in Northern Wisconsin. Today, Susan Knight, expert botanist and Trout Lake Station’s director, is on a mission to track some down. We’re headed to Little John …
by Riley Steinbrenner Just outside of Minocqua, Wisconsin, we drove up to the Johnson Lake boat launch and you could see them clear as day. No, not the different species of macrophytes, or aquatic plants, we were after, but wind-driven white caps. White caps may be a promising sign of catching some gnarly waves in …
This summer, Anna Krieg, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, will spend a few months in a much wetter habitat as the CFL’s summer outreach intern at our Trout Lake Station. These are her Notes from the Northwoods: by Anna Krieg – On June 28th, 25 people climbed into 6 boats and set off to …
Trout Lake Station’s 5th Annual Open House and Ice Cream Social was humming along Friday, July 31st. With an hour to go, 332 people had toured the station, getting a look at everything from seed traps, to freshwater bryozoans, to this crazy contraption we call FLAMe. It was an outstanding day to do a little …
by AnnaKay Kruger Joe Bevington leans over the side of the boat and eyes the dense weeds in the water below us, watching green, long-feathered arms of Eurasian water milfoil move indolently with the current. The UW-Madison undergraduate wields a long rake that he drags along the lake bottom, twirling tendrils of plant matter around …