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The Environment and Environmental Issues

Choosing the Northwoods as a vacation site, or a place to live or retire is choosing to be close to nature. Such a choice is usually accompanied by a love of nature and a concern for its preservation.

The number of environment issues of concern to the Northwoods region is vast. Those highlighted here--listed to the left--are the ones of particular concern to your webmaster. Your concerns can also be expressed, if you would like to submit material for this page, whether related to one of the environmental topics to the left or a new one of interest to you.

Note, however, that there is a definity "green" bias to this website, and submissions will be viewed with that in mind.

Charles P. Forbes
March 16, 2007

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Comprehensive References

Waller and Rooney, eds.. Vanishing Present, The: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife. Chicago, 2008. View Full Entry

Major References

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****. Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Magazine. Ashland, 2016. View Full Entry
Allison, Stuart. Ecological Restoration. [Knox Magazine, Wol. 88, #2, Fall, 2004, pp. 12, ff.] Galesburg, IL, 2004. View Full Entry
Annin, Peter. Great Lakes Water Wars. Washington, 2006. View Full Entry
Barlow, Connie. Ghosts of Evolution. New York, 2000. View Full Entry
Birdsey, Richard. Carbon storage and accumulation in United States Forest Ecosystems. [General Technical Report WO-59. August 1992] Washington, 1992. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Callicott, Baird. Brief History of the American Land Ethic Since 1492. [Inner Voice [Journal], January February, 1994, Pp. 5-9.] Eugene, OR, 1994. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Chern, et al.. Groundwater. [Wisconsin Natural Resources, V.23, #4, Aug. '99 Special Insert] Madison, 1999. View Full Entry (Full text available)
David, Tom. For Nature's Sake. [Wisconsin Trails, 43:3, June, 2002, pp. 24-29] 2002. View Full Entry
Flader, Susan. Thinking Like a Mountain. Lincoln, NE, 1978. View Full Entry
Gilchrist, Susan. Science Supporting Decisions, 2001-2003 Biennial Report, Wisconsin DNR, Bureau of Integrated Science Services. [PUB-SS-985 2003] Madison, 2003. View Full Entry
Gjestson and Niebauer. 50 Years of the Pittman-Roberston Act in Wisconsin. [Pittman-Robertson Anniversary Publication. PUBL-WM-151-86] Madison, 1986. View Full Entry
Goldstein, Jon. Competition for Wetlands in the Midwest. Baltimore, 1971. View Full Entry
GLIFWC. Poisoning The Circle: Mercury In Our Ecosystem. Odanah, n.d.. View Full Entry
GLIFWC. With an Eagle's Eyes. Odanah, n.d.. View Full Entry
Harrington, Cate. Blueprint for Conservation of the Great Lakes. [Newsletter of the Wisconsin Chapter [of the Nature Conservance], Winter 2003-2004] Madison, 2003. View Full Entry
Huffman, Thomas. Protectors of the Land and Water. Chapel Hill, 1994. View Full Entry
Joseph, Patrick. Battle of the Dams. [Smithsonian, Nov. 1998] 1998. View Full Entry
Judd, Richard. Wonderful Order and Balance: Natural History & Beginnings of Forest Conservation. [Environmental History, Vol. 11, #1, Jan. 2006, pp. 8-36] Durham, NC, 2006. View Full Entry
Kanetzke, Howard, Ed.. Wisconsin Environment. [Badger History, Vol. XXIV, #2, Nov. 1970] Madison, 1970. View Full Entry
Kleinert et al.. DDT and Dieldrin Residues Found in Wisconsin Fishes from the Survey of 1966, Preliminary Report.. [Research Report No. 23 (Fisheries). Final Report is Technical Bulletin #41.] Madison, 1967. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Kleinert et al.. Occurrence and Significance of DDT and Dieldrin Residues in Wisconsin Fish. [Technical Bulletin No. 41] . View Full Entry
Klobuchar, Jim. Sigurd F. Olson: The Incurable Adventurer. [Northland Light, Winter 1999, Cover, pp. 8-11; reprinted from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, January 14, 1982.] Ashland, 1999. View Full Entry
LaFollette, Doug. Wisconsin Survival Handbook. Racine, 1971. View Full Entry
Leopold, Aldo, et al.. Minority Report of the Citizens' Deer Committee to Wisconsin Conservation Commission. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, Vol. 8, #8, August, 1943] Madison, 1943. View Full Entry
Martin, Paul. Twilight of the Mammoths. [Organisms and Environments, ed. by Harry W. Greene] Berkeley, 2005. View Full Entry
Maurer, David. Great Lakes Initiative: EPA and States Have Made Progress. [Testimony before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Enviornment, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, Jan. 29, 2008, GAO -08-312T] Washington, 2008. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Meyer, George. State of Wisconsin's Natural Resources. [Wisconsin Natural Resources, Vol. 24, #4, Aug. 2000, ff. p. 17.] Madison, 2000. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Meyer, Thomas, ed.. Wisconsin, Naturally. [DNR PUB-ER-115 2003] Madison, 2003. View Full Entry
Nash, Roderick. American Environment. [Themes and Forces in American History Series] Reading, MA, 1968. View Full Entry
Nature Conservancey. Great Lakes Ecoregion. [Nature Conservancey News, May/June 1997] 1997. View Full Entry
Nature Conservancy. Continental U.S. Ecoregions. [Nature Conservancy News, May/June 1998] 1988. View Full Entry
Nature Conservancy Great Lakes Program. Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Great Lakes Ecosystem. Chicago, 1994. View Full Entry
Ness, Erik. Return to the Shack. [Wisconsin Trails, 44:2, March/April 2003, p. 37.] Black Earth, WI, 2003. View Full Entry
Northland College, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Horizons. [Published quarterly (?)] Ashland, ser. View Full Entry
Northland College, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Horizons Nearing. Ashalnd, . View Full Entry
Olson, et al.. Voice for the Wilderness. Ashland, 2006. View Full Entry
Pohlman, et al. (ed.). Wisconsin Land Legacy Report. Madison, 2006. View Full Entry
Reid, George. Ecology of Inland Waters and Estuaries. [Reinhold Books in the Biological Sciences] New York, 1961. View Full Entry
Rothschild, Matthew, ed.. Democracy in Print. Madison, 2009. View Full Entry
Rowe and Schrank. Hey, Can I Eat This?. [Lake Tides, Vol. 37, #1, Winter 2012] Stevens Point, 2012. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Sapper, Becky. Our Watershed, Our Water. Ashland, 2002. View Full Entry
Schreiber, Ken. Wisconsin Water Quality, Report to Congress, 1986. [PUBL-WR-137 86] Madison, 1986. View Full Entry
Sear, Paul. Deserts on the March. Norman, Oklahoma, 1947. View Full Entry
Thoreau, Henry David. In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World. Selections and Photographs by Eliot Porter. New York, 1962. View Full Entry
U.S. General Accounting Office. Cleaning Up the Great Lakes. [GAO-RED-75-338, March 21, 1975] Washington, 1975. View Full Entry (Full text available)
GAO. Great Lakes: EPA Needs to Define Organizational Responsibillities Better for Effective Oversight and Cleanup of Contaminated Areas. [GAO-02-563] Washington, 2002. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Vilas County Soil and Water Conservation District. Vilas County Resource and Conservation Needs. [Revised 1971] Eagle River, 1971. View Full Entry
Weist, William. Summary Appraisals of the Nation's Ground-Water Resources--Great Lakes Region. [US, Dept. of the Interir, Geological Survey, Professional Paper 813-J] Washington, 1978. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, Cooperative Educational Planning Program. Guide to Conservation Education in Wisconsin Schools. [Bulletin No. 20, August 1949] Madison, 1953. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, Natural Resources Committee of State Agencies. Natural Resources of Wisconsin. [Reprinted from 1964 Wisconsin Blue Book] Madison, 1964. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, Natural Resources, Dept. of. Environmental Assessment Aquatic Nuisance Control (NR107) Program. Madison, 1988. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, Natural Resources, Dept. of. Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine. [Issues 1981 to date.] Madison, . View Full Entry (Full text available)
Zaporozec, Alexander. Groundwater Levels in Wisconsin. [WI Geological & Nat Hist Survey, Educ. Series 15: Series includes a summer for 1991-1993, and annual summaries for 1994-1999.] Madison, 1999. View Full Entry (Full text available)

Minor References

Edmonds, Michael. Wisconsin's Environmental Legacy. [Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 100, #4, Summer 2017, pp. 10-15] Madison, 2017. View Full Entry (Full text available)