The stories are intended to hover at what Center for Limnology director Steve Carpenter calls “the edge of plausibility,” and encourage something people are terrible at: long-term ecological thinking and planning.
Tag: yahara river system
Water-cleaning crustacean devoured by new predator in Lake Mendota
Daphnia, tiny crustaceans in Lake Mendota that graze on algae, and their good works are in danger. Each year their population is now crashing in the late summer as they are decimated by a voracious new predator called the spiny waterflea.
Lake scientists to Kegonsa: Lower your water quality expectations
All lakes are not created equal. And in the Madison area’s Yahara chain, Lake Kegonsa is the redheaded steplake.
Case study: How one developer plans to curb runoff into Madison’s lakes
“Developers are often demonized, but I have probably planted more trees than 99 percent of citizens and the city of Madison,” said Wall, the 2009 recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and a one-time Republican U.S. Senate candidate who lost to Ron Johnson. “There is nothing worse than a town filled with concrete.”
All about algal blooms
How to spot them, what to do if you do, and signs of illness.
Lake experiments explore roles of fish, computers, alum and more
The Yahara watershed is crawling with scientists who keep trying new ways to clean up the lakes.
Yahara beach closures highlight algae, bacteria threats statewide
The Yahara lakes — Mendota, Monona, Wingra, Waubesa and Kegonsa — are no clearer than they were 30 years ago, despite intensive efforts to improve them.
Virus found in Wisconsin trout
The cutthroat trout virus was found among hundreds of thousands of brown trout that the state Department of Natural Resources released from state hatcheries into surrounding waterways.