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Groundwater war pits Wisconsin farms against fish

By | July 21, 2013

“Long Lake was once a trophy bass lake. So when we moved here, in the first two years, my boys were catching bass like crazy,” said Brian Wolf, who owns a cabin on Long Lake. “It was like catching fish in a barrel as the water declined.”

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Plover resident Barb Gifford lives along the Little Plover River and started the Friends of the Little Plover group in 2005, when sections of the river first dried up. "You canât live on a body of water every day and not know when something was wrong," she says.

Saving the ‘endangered’ Little Plover River

By | July 21, 2013

While experts say the Little Plover is the poster child for the problems of overpumping, some of them hope it also could be the source of solutions.

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