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With their huge TV revenue, UW athletics is not an acceptable use of GPR.

I am a Badger fan but $14 million in GPR to the UW athletic department is absolutely repulsive.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

We charge ours by plugging into a standard wall outlet. Easy peasy

14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and not a coastal path.

ALASKA: New research from the Holzman site in the Tanana Valley highlights 14,000-year-old stone and mammoth-ivory tools—evidence of sophisticated toolmaking in interior Alaska before classic Clovis-age sites farther south.

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Land deal expands popular Wisconsin state park as Stewardship program remains in limbo One of the largest remaining parcels of private land within Wisconsin’s most popular state park will be transferred to the state under a land deal funded through Wisconsin's contested land acquisition...

Very satisfying and exciting acquisition for State Parks and Ice Age Trail but future progress is uncertain if the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program is not reauthorized

www.wpr.org/news/land-de...

Thank you humans of Washington Island for documenting my efforts to make my own Half Dome and shove ice out 🌊🌊

Those are good. Also, for walking and biking, Edgewood Drive and the Southwest Path hold up well

Areas near new data centers saw an increase in electricity costs of as much as 267%, according to a recent @bloomberg.com analysis

Besides the racism and sexism, Tiffany will appeal to a lot of voters for his kitchen table to tavern Wisconsinness in a way that Michels did not.

Did you know that there’s a moth that only eats keratin from the shells of gopher tortoises?? The gopher tortoise shell moth — Ceratophaga vicinella.

This world is magic. What will we do to protect it?

#wildlife #animal #animals #ecology #science #stem #magic #love

Red osier dogwood, Ice Age Trail, Brooklyn Wildlife Area

Red osier dogwood along the Ice Age Trail, Brooklyn Wildlife Area

A radar image showing a plume of snow heading southeast out of portage.

Seeing flurries this morning in Columbia, Dane, and Jefferson Counties?

Thank the Portage power plant.

Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits

"I can’t envision a bigger middle finger to every MAHA mom than this."

Trump is increasing production of a weedkiller that has been linked to cancer in thousands of lawsuits, giving a massive handout to the chemical industry at our expense.

Is this what Make America Healthy Again looks like? 🤔

Great Lakes The Great Lakes basin contains 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. It is home to 10 percent of the U.S. population who depend on the lakes and the rivers that feed into them for clean drinking wate...

The Great Lakes basin contains 20% of the world’s fresh water. It's home to 10% of the U.S. population who depend on its lakes and the rivers that feed into them for clean water, agriculture, industry, and more.

🏙️ Explore our work in the Great Lakes: www.americanrivers.org/region/great...

Mud season is a great time of year to enjoy hard-surface trails. Yesterday we explored a mile+ of the Upper Yahara River Trail. Thank you Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund for making it possible.

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Because bringing back all those jobs shoveling coal would make America great again, asserts Don Quixote Trump

Don Quixote Trump attempts to strike again

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t stop it from sh*tting on the beach.

Maybe unsightly today to some, this recent treatment with a forestry mower is a great step toward an ecologically healthy and beautiful woods. Hopefully prescribed burning can be used too. It is along a future segment of Ice Age Trail near Madison.

State Natural Areas and the Evolution of Land Conservation in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin Land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Nathan Kiel. Read about how land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.
@nathankiel.bsky.social #envhist #wisconsin #conservation

Business groups sue to block Port Washington residents from interfering with TIDs Business groups are suing the city of Port Washington, challenging the legality of a proposed ordinance that would give residents more power over local development incentives.

Tax Incremental Financing (and their Tax Incremental Districts) need more guardrails to minimize potential harms to communities. Port Washington residents attempt to add a guardrail. Business alliance that includes WI Realtors Assoc is challenging the attempt in court. www.wpr.org/news/busines...

Shorewood trespassing citation could decide future of beach access in Wisconsin A Shorewood man is planning to appeal a municipal judge's decision that found him guilty of trespassing in hopes that the case will go to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and decide public versus private b...

Great case to follow for all who enjoy long beach walks www.wpr.org/news/shorewo...

Remind me again how college makes students woke?

Hay Creek Wetlands Project Preserves and Extends Essential Habitat - Landmark Conservancy Landmark Conservancy has partnered with Jan and Rick Neville to protect 320 acres of largely undeveloped forest and wetland adjacent to the Chequamegon National Forest in Sawyer County.

Landmark Conservancy protects another 320 acres with a conservation easement adjacent to the Chequamegon National Forest. landmarkwi.org/hay-creek-we...

The world is such a beautiful place. There shouldn’t be time for hate if you’re paying attention.

let this be what breaks the nazis, launch the Nordic asatru wannabe-vikings nazis at the police state suits nazis

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Data Center Power Play Unmitigated data center growth puts the public at risk of higher utility bills and public health costs.

@ucs.org shows we can power data centers with clean energy. And better.