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Wisconsin's earliest native flowering plant
(1968-01-01)With the coming of spring there is an enthusiastic revival of interest in people for the out-of-doors and, not infrequently, a more than casual interest in the pursuit of the first flowering plant. For the stay-at-home ... -
Winter Bird Studies At The UWM Field Station
(1968-04-01)The winter trapping program was begun in the winter of 1965-66 and was expanded and conducted more systematically in 1966-67 and 1967-68. The primary objective has been to determine accurately the daily and seasonal changes ... -
Bird Hybrids in the Kettle Moraine
(1968-10-01)Since hybridization in birds is so rare in nature, it is unusual to have the opportunity to study what happens when two species interbreed. Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora pinus) and Golden-winged Warblers (V. chrysoptera) ... -
In Quest of the Elusive Ovenbird
(1968-10-01)The Ovenbird was selected for intensive study at the UWM Field Station for a variety of reasons. First, it is closely adapted in all respects-morphological, physiological, behavioral- to the upland forest environment, ... -
Goldenrods
(1968-10-01)The Goldenrods, with their abundance and diversity, produce one of the most brilliant natural wildflower displays in our area from mid-August to November. In North America there are about one hundred species of these plants ... -
Benedict Prairie
(1968-10-01)The Benedict Prairie Unit of The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Stations consists of about six acres, actually 100 feet wide and one half mile long, on what was once a railroad right of way on the old Kenosha-Silver ... -
UWM’s first PhD in botany awarded for study of Cedarburg Bog
(1969-04-01)Thomas F. Grittinger's thesis, entitled "Vegetational Patterns and Edaphic Relationships in Cedarburg Bog," summarized for the first time we now have a large amount of information about the variety and detailed composition ... -
Small mammals at the Field Station
(1969-04-01)Ecological studies of small mammals are undertaken for a variety of reasons. Some investigations are conducted to determine their economic relationship to man, since small mammals directly affect his welfare through ... -
A 24-hour radiation budget at a high-grass marsh in early winter
(1969-04-01)As with others of the numerous physical factors forming the nonliving environment of terrestrial ecosystems, the upward and downward exchanges of the fluxes of solar (short-wave) and terrestrial (long-wave) radiation often ... -
Phenology
(1969-04-01)A number of events are being recorded at the UWM Field Station, chiefly concerning the earliest arrival dates of certain birds and the earliest flowering dates of native woodland and bog plants. In the table below are ... -
The use of bio-telemetry for studying squirrel population dynamics and behavior
(1969-10-01)A full understanding of the ecology and behavior of any animal requires a knowledge of the animal's movements. Historically, data from natural events involving any animal under natural conditions have been obtained from ... -
Phenology - the layman's science
(1969-10-01)Phenology is embedded in human folklore and culture but it is also a science--a science of the relationships between biological events and environmental changes, chiefly those of season and weather. As a science phenology ... -
Yews and hemlocks - A progress report.
(1969-10-01)An investigation which has been underway for several years at the Cedar-Sauk Field Station and the adjacent Cedarburg Bog is concerned with the American Yew or Ground Hemlock (Taxus canadensis Marsh.) and the Eastern Hemlock ... -
Personnel profile - Alvin L. Throne
(1969-10-01)The UWM Field Stations Committee is composed of dedicated individuals interested in preserving natural areas for educational and scientific purposes. Success in the acquisition of such areas is often the result of the extra ... -
Why support a field station?
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The late-glacial and post-glacial history of the Cedarburg Bog area, Wisconsin
(1970-04-01)Continental glaciers moving over Wisconsin four times in the last two million years sculptured the underlying Paleozoic dolomites and limestones in the Cedarburg area and deposited vast amounts of debris on the bedrock ... -
The fat and weight cycle in Wisconsin juncos
(1970-04-01)Our study was aimed at answering three specific questions. First, do wild Juncos in Wisconsin exhibit spring premigratory fat deposition. Second, it has been reported that during the winter, fat deposits and body weights ... -
The Stadium Interstate Freeway and Cedarburg Bog
(1970-04-01)Although the initially favored corridor for the Stadium interstate freeway was adjacent to Cedarburg Bog, the highway department is now favoring a route at least a mile from the Bog. Many different individuals had written ... -
Insectivorous plants in Cedarburg Bog
(1970-04-01)Bogs, with their poorly drained organic soils, high water tables, low mineral content and cool sluggish water, offer unique habitats for a variety of unusual plants of which the insectivorous ones are especially interesting. ... -
Hollies in Wisconsin
(1970-10-01)With the coming of the winter season botanical interests are directed chiefly toward yuletide plants, one of which is the holly. The species most commonly used in wreaths and decorations is the English Holly (Ilex aquifolium ...