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June 1990 was a wet one in Brown County with a total of 14.2 inches of rainfall recorded at the Austin Straubel Airport.

How local leaders are preparing to face Wisconsin’s greatest climate challenges

I have lived most of my life on the reservation of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa located on the south shore of Lake Superior.

Water was threatening to spill over the top of my hip boots. In early May, the opening of trout fishing season, the water of the Wolf River was cold.

If climate change was the star of the recently concluded Paris Climate Conference (COP21), ecology played a key supporting role.

Materials from Sandra Byers' studio

A visit to Sandra Byers' ceramic studio in Rock Springs, WI.

Recently, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) began publishing a series titled Failure at the Faucet, examining state water quality and supply issues.

Last summer, when Wisconsin Academy Executive Director Jane Elder and I began planning programs and publications around the United Nations 21st Conference of the

Share Your Positive Water Stories

“People think that stories are shaped by people; it fact, it’s the other way around.”

—Terry Pratchett, from his novel Witches Abroad

Happy 100th birthday to a founding father of USGS hydrology.

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