Wildlife

The Verona Public Library has debuted floor-to-ceiling translucent dot stickers on its 35-foot tall glass windows. The treatment comes after volunteer citizen scientists documented 88 bird deaths while periodically surveying the windows since 2021.

As anglers head to the lakes for this Saturday’s fishing opener, some are hoping to reel in more support for Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to increase license fees for fishing, hunting and trapping.

Chronic wasting disease has spread to more than 75 percent of counties in Wisconsin as the state continues to see new detections in wild and farm-raised deer.

You can find Darren Bush and Timothy Bauer on Driftless Area rivers this spring. Bauer said spring is the best time to see the rocky outcroppings along the bluffs before the foliage camouflages them.

With drone surveys already being adopted in parts of the U.S. and internationally to track species ranging from elephants to marine mammals, Amanda Griswold’s findings contribute to a growing body of knowledge about how aerial monitoring can support wildlife management on a broader scale.

State wildlife regulators are investigating the illegal killing of a bull elk in Jackson County that was one of the last remaining elk transferred to Wisconsin from Kentucky in 2016.

Environmental advocates and legal experts say the outcome of this month’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election will affect a number of cases coming before the court.

Wolves and dogs share many similarities. However, there are a few important differences in the way they interact with humans, Patricia McConnell, an applied animal behaviorist who’s worked with and studied dogs for more than 25 years, said on “The Larry Meiller Show.”

Wisconsin lawmakers will weigh whether to allow hunting of sandhill cranes and provide aid to corn growers experiencing damage from the birds under a bill introduced this month.

The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board unanimously passed regulations that would allow deer management based on habitat rather than county lines in the forests of central and northern Wisconsin.