With multiple large waterbodies in Walworth County, including Geneva Lake, Delavan Lake, Lake Como and Powers Lake among others, area interest runs high in local lakes and their health.
The summer season is getting off to a tuneful start at the Fontana Public Library as the library hosts the free adult program “Harmonica 101," featuring veteran harmonica instructor Dale
Each year the Lakeshore Nature Preserve awards several Student Engagement Grants of up to $1000 each to facilitate the use of the Preserve as a resource for education among UW undergraduates. Any student, faculty, or staff member at the UW-Madison may apply. Groups of individuals may submit a proposal as a team. Every individual or…
Ben Ratner2021-04-02T12:45:49-04:00March 12, 2021|
For ice fishermen on northern Michigan’s frozen lakes, it’s easy to feel like climate change is a world away. But it’s only a matter of time before a warming planet transforms the tradition.
By Ben Ratner
Amid the frozen Michigan fields past the homemade signs for hubcaps, hard cider, and firewood lies Houghton Lake. Surrounded by forest and farmland, it is one hundred miles from the state capitol and two hundred from the state’s population centers. The lake borders a town of four thousand people and a “census-designated place for statistical purposes” that just breaks seventeen hundred. U.S. Route 127 appears to give up right around here; after barreling north from Tennessee for seven hundred and fifty miles, the highway ends. In the middle of Michigan, there aren’t many people or cars.