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Community conservation: Over 30 years of the C.D. Besadny Conservation Grant Program

by Blog Contributor | Jun 18, 2015 | Profiles in Conservation

Created in 1990, the Besadny Program fosters responsible stewardship of Wisconsin’s lands, waters, and wildlife by supporting grassroots, community-based projects.

Protecting the state’s wood turtles, one garden at a time

by Blog Contributor | Jun 8, 2015 | Wildlife

By David Zeug, Foundation guest blogger Any day on the Brule River is a good day. What I didn’t realize when I heard the commotion behind me was that this November day was going to become even more special and lead to a fascination with the wood turtle. Like a buck chasing a doe, the […]

Bad River Youth Outdoors: Good waters, good life

by Blog Contributor | Jun 4, 2015 | Environmental Education

Bad River Youth Outdoors is gearing up for its third summer of watershed education with tribal youth from the Bad River Ojibwe Indian Reservation.

Of birds and snakes on the Osa Peninsula

by Blog Contributor | May 27, 2015 | Wildlife

By Connie and Peter Roop, Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin members While hiking the Osa peninsula of Costa Rica with the Natural Resources Foundation, the deadly fer de lance, one of the most venomous snakes on Earth, slithered right between us. We looked at each other and agreed—it was time to make our will. We […]