Midwest Wilderness Connections Eco-briefs and Eco-sweeps
MWC Eco-briefs: Animal Track Trivia
What animal left these tracks on a sand road in northwestern Illinois? Scroll below to reveal the culprit. Here's a photo hint 🤔 The correct answer is a snapping turtle! Female...
MWC Eco-briefs: Animal Track Trivia
What animal left these tracks on a sand road in northwestern Illinois? Scroll below to reveal the culprit. Here's a photo hint 🤔 The correct answer is a snapping turtle! Female...
MWC Eco-brief: Upper Mississippi River Freshwat...
In the early 1900s, freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River were over exploited to the point of near extinction to make pearl buttons from their thick shells. When it...
MWC Eco-brief: Upper Mississippi River Freshwat...
In the early 1900s, freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River were over exploited to the point of near extinction to make pearl buttons from their thick shells. When it...
MWC Eco-brief: Beauty and the Beast
We all marvel at the beauty and acrobatics of dragonflies and damselflies. Less well known is that years of their life are spent underwater as nymphs; the T-Rex...
MWC Eco-brief: Beauty and the Beast
We all marvel at the beauty and acrobatics of dragonflies and damselflies. Less well known is that years of their life are spent underwater as nymphs; the T-Rex...
MWC Eco-brief: One busy mama!
Have you watched a pair of Canada geese in amazement as they chaperone an unbelievable number of goslings? Egg dumping, laying eggs in another female's nest, is practiced by Canada...
MWC Eco-brief: One busy mama!
Have you watched a pair of Canada geese in amazement as they chaperone an unbelievable number of goslings? Egg dumping, laying eggs in another female's nest, is practiced by Canada...
MWC Eco-brief: Got Oxygen?
Got oxygen? Stream water holds less available oxygen than air. Water picks up dissolved oxygen (DO) where mixing occurs and when plants & algae release DO during photosynthesis. How much...
MWC Eco-brief: Got Oxygen?
Got oxygen? Stream water holds less available oxygen than air. Water picks up dissolved oxygen (DO) where mixing occurs and when plants & algae release DO during photosynthesis. How much...
