Field Notes: Know your salamanders

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The Southwest’s Wildest Outdoor Art: From Lightning Fields to Sun Tunnels 30:55

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A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…

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Salamanders, newts and mudpuppies are amphibians, and they are all salamanders, but not all salamanders are newts or mudpuppies.

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Field Notes: Know your salamanders

WXPR Field Notes

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Salamanders, newts and mudpuppies are amphibians, and they are all salamanders, but not all salamanders are newts or mudpuppies.

24 פרקים

#WXPR #WXPR Public Radio #Science #Natural Sciences #Field Notes

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Canadian Nightcrawlers: More Than Just Bait 4:04

לפני 8 ימים4:04

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While they’re famous among anglers, few people realize that Canadian Nightcrawlers—Lumbricus terrestris—have a fascinating biological story all their own, one that stretches across continents and ecosystems.

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Field Notes: Nitrogen Fixation and Bombs 5:02

לפני 6 weeks5:02

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Though it may be a nuisance in some situations, tag alder has a magic trick – it can fix nitrogen.

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Field Notes: Frost and Roads 5:02

לפני 10 weeks5:02

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In this month's installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses frost and roads – all part of managing our sustainable natural resources.

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Field Notes: Calling a fish a ‘fish’ 3:33

לפני 13 weeks3:33

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‘Fish’ is one of those words, useful in the image it evokes but less reliable as a lineage, clearly defined.

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Field Notes: Otters 4:57

לפני 18 weeks4:57

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Otters are mustelids and related to other Northwoods mammals including mink and weasels. They were common throughout North America until Europeans overharvested the animals for their warm, dense and beautiful coats.

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Field Notes: The Fish of Vilas County 4:15

לפני 23 weeks4:15

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In this episode of Field Notes, Lonnie Parry Gillis takes us on an exploration of the fish of Vilas County, Wisconsin—an area blessed with an astounding 1,300 plus lakes.

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Field Notes: Producers and Consumers 4:43

לפני 27 weeks4:43

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In this month's installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses producers (plants) and consumers (fungi) in the forest world around us.

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Field Notes: Bountiful Blooms in our Water Bodies 5:59

לפני 32 weeks5:59

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Seasonal blooms are common and often monitored in warm and high nutrient lakes throughout southern Wisconsin, but are less commonly reported in lakes up north. This makes it challenging to track and manage across the 1,000s of regional lakes.

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Field Notes: Harvesting Ginseng 5:38

לפני 36 weeks5:38

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One of the crops most iconic to our area is ginseng, Panax quinquefolia. Marathon County, just south of Lincoln County is the center of ginseng farming, not just in Wisconsin but it is recognized as the largest source and the best quality of ginseng in the world.

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Field Notes: Thermally Modified Wood 4:21

לפני 40 weeks4:21

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In this month's installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses thermally modified wood, a chemical free way to preserve wood for outdoor use.

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Field Notes: Know your salamanders 5:05

לפני 49 weeks5:05

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Salamanders, newts and mudpuppies are amphibians, and they are all salamanders, but not all salamanders are newts or mudpuppies.

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Field Notes: Wisconsin Crappies 5:17

לפני 1 year5:17

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In Wisconsin, opening fishing applies to certain species of fish such as walleye, trout, largemouth bass, and northern pike. However, this season opener does not apply to panfish, which are open year-round. Panfish include species such as bluegill, crappie, sunfish, and yellow perch.

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Recording long term data 4:51

לפני 1 year4:51

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There are many kinds of record keeping that scientists use to recapture recent and ancient history

לפני 2 years4:59

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Spiny water fleas are aquatic arthropods called zooplankton. Zooplankton are small shrimp-like creatures, and most of them survive by eating phytoplankton, the microscopic photosynthetic algae at the bottom of the food chain in lakes.

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