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John and Mary Thiel bought their first sled dog 20 years ago. After experiencing the thrill of dog sledding, the couple bought another dog… and then another… until finally deciding to try to make a living at running dog sledding trips for others.
Andrea Thalasinos is another Wisconsin musher who fell in love with Siberian huskies and recreational dog sledding. Listen to her story here.
Taylor Johnson’s family has harvested lumber in Northern Wisconsin for generations. While other loggers have embraced modern equipment, Taylor has found value in logging with a team of horses, in winter’s cold and summer’s heat.
Photo: Carl Corey
For the past 40+ years, Bill Galinsky has been involved in designing, making, and repairing clocks. From the harvesting, sawing and drying of his own lumber, to carving and assembling each clock by hand, he creates some of the most unique clocks in the world. Some whimsical, some extremely ornate. Bill’s clocks set the standard for care and attention to detail at The Duplainville Clock Company.
The oldest biker gang in the state stays young by seeing the countryside at 25mph. Find out why the only requirements to join are the right cycle and a red jacket.
States like California may cultivate wine taste-testers; but here in Wisconsin, we develop dairy taste-testers. For 36 years, UW-Madison Emeritus Professor of Food Science Bob Bradley has been teaching a course in “sensory evaluation,” training students to be taste testers of dairy products. Students who have what Professor Bradley regards as “good buds” get to join in the team that competes nationally.
Wisconsin has its craft beer, artisanal coffee roasters, and specialty waters. Today, Terry Bell introduces us to one of Wisconsin’s newest craft beverages.
Photo: WiscoPop
Carly Lapin is a Department of Natural Resources Conservation Biologist assigned to study wood turtles in northern Wisconsin. She will use radio transmitters to track approximately thirty wood turtles on the Tomahawk, Namekagon and Totogatic Rivers. Her research will be used to enhance the survival rates for this state-threatened species.
Did you know that several roads in Wisconsin are busy “turtle crossings”? Find out more about the wood turtle and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ turtle conservation program. Find a list here of turtles found in Wisconsin.
Just two weeks into his career as a cancer researcher in Madison, Dustin Deming was diagnosed with the very cancer he studies. His experience as a patient has changed Dr. Deming’s work as a doctor.
Learn more about Dr. Deming’s research and the team of doctors working at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, the state’s only comprehensive cancer center.
Authors and book lovers are descending on Madison this weekend for the Wisconsin Book Festival. Students and residents in Baraboo recently completed a book of their own. Today we learn about “Dr. Vertigo’s Circus Spectacular,” the town’s second community-written novel.
Read the novel online.
Taylor Johnson’s family has been harvesting lumber in Springbrook and other parts of Northern Wisconsin for generations. While other loggers have embraced modern equipment, Taylor has found value in logging with a team of horses.
Some of us love morning while others loathe the sound of the alarm and live for nights. Commentator Wendy Lutzke tells us what’s so great about getting up at dawn.
Wendy Lutzke is a writer and museum educator at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.
Photo: Wendy Lutzke
Gary Soule discovered caving as a teen. He has had a lifetime of discovery and adventure exploring Door County’s hidden, underground treasures. Gary has had run-ins with skunks, taken a 13 hour journey in Horseshoe Bay Cave and helped preserve the Dorchester Cave after it was discovered by accident under a nursing home. Explore more about Wisconsin’s caves.
Seventy years ago, an innovative program to reforest the Great Lakes and teach natural resources management took root in Eagle River. Producer Emily Bright takes us inside Trees for Tomorrow.
Photo: Trees for Tomorrow
Michael Perry shares a bit of his unique, “clodhopper” Wisconsin life…this time, he describes how just about anything can be made better by putting wheels on it.
Every so often, wild horses and burros captured in the western United States are trucked to Mequon by the Bureau of Land Management field office in Milwaukee. Producer Nancy Camden went to see a mustang and burro adoption.
Photo: Nancy Camden
Music: “ETC” Nineteen Thirteen