by April Wendling | Apr 23, 2025 | Ecosystems
By Sam Levenhagen In between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch Mountains, a war is raging, cloaked in unassuming shades of gentle brown and green. Gnarled, shrunken trees line the perimeter of the basin, limbs outstretched in attack. Tough, short grasses, dotting the open...
by April Wendling | Apr 23, 2025 | Sustainability Education
By Madeline Yu It’s 9:19 a.m. and 73º outside, which is really weird for mid-September in Wisconsin. My classmates and I are in the middle of nowhere — Baraboo, WI — at the Aldo Leopold Foundation for a field studies class. Our professor introduces us to a wildlife...
by April Wendling | Apr 23, 2025 | Food Systems
By Sophia Beem As a kid I ran among the corn with my cousins, green stalks rough against our red elbows. We played until we were tired and sweaty and ate ice cream that Grandma scooped for us out of a gallon plastic tub, which would later be used for scraps to feed...
by April Wendling | Apr 23, 2025 | Q&A
By Molly Grossman If there’s one thing environmental historian and U. of I. history professor Rosalyn LaPier is familiar with, it’s sharing knowledge. An enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis, LaPier has been featured in many projects that have...
by April Wendling | Mar 3, 2025 | Carbon Costs
By Gabe Lareau Amidst March Madness 2023, the U. of I. women’s basketball team sat idle. On the tarmac, waiting to fly to the Big Ten Tournament, their plane couldn’t take off. It wasn’t the weather; the only reason the aircraft couldn’t fly was because it was nearly...
