Newsmakers, July 26, 2012

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Matt Otto, a Resource Conservationist with the USDA discusses providing Driftless Area landowners with funding to support improvement projects. Then Jess Carstens, a wildlife biologist from the Wisconsin DNR about how cougars got to Wisconsin.

Featured in this Show

  • Federal Funding for Wisconsin's Driftless region

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing Driftless Area landowners with $1.2 million in conservation funding to support improvement projects for area forests, waterways, and farmland. We talk with Matt Otto, a Resource Conservationist with the USDA and an area farmer about the grant program.

  • Rare Wildlife Sightings

    We talk to wildlife biologist Jess Carsten from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about some of the reasons there have been more rare wildlife sightings in the Badger state in recent years.