Murky Waters
Landowners, volunteers unite to clean up ‘impaired’ waters
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Efforts to clean up lakes Mendota, Monona, Kegonsa and Waubesa are employing conservation practices that originated in Dane County back in the 1970s — just on steroids.
Water Watch Wisconsin
Groundwater war pits Wisconsin farms against fish
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“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.”
Groundwater
Saving the ‘endangered’ Little Plover River
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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.