Flyways Waterfowl Experience

Outdoor Wisconsin | Program | #3407

[Latest Airdate: May 31, 2018]
[Original Airdate: February 15, 2018]

This week we kick off a duck theme with trips to the Flyways Waterfowl Experience Museum in Baraboo and the first annual Wisconsin Waterfowl Association decoy carving competition in UW Stevens Point. Then, Dan Small visits the 2017 Sports Show with an overview from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Dave Jones and tour of Bryan Muche's old duck hunters exhibit.

WEB LINKS
State Fair Park:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Show:
Flyways Waterfowl Museum:
WWA Decoy Carving:

Old Duck Hunters Exhibit:


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Come along with us on adventures for every season in the Badger State as we hike, fish, hunt, camp, sail, canoe and explore Wisconsin's abundant natural resources.

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Artesian Springs, WI wetland USA, March, 2016

Last month, I was talking to a Floridian who told me that his drinking water came from an “underground river” that originated in Kentucky. I was surprised to hear that, and later discovered that the existence of “underground rivers” was - and evidently still is - a belief held by some people. In reality however, “underground rivers” don’t exist. What does exist, at various depths beneath the earth’s surface, are layers of sand, gravel, and/or porous rock where groundwater is collected, held (like, for example, the way a sponge holds water) and slowly moves towards areas of lower elevations and/or under pressure. This saturated substrate is called an “aquifer”. Groundwater may be intercepted by wells; it also discharges to lakes, rivers, wetlands, etc. If you’re lucky enough, you may sometime see a spring or artesian groundwater, which is a naturally occurring discharge of groundwater rising above the land surface due to the forces of pressure acting upon it in a confined aquifer. I considered myself lucky…saw over 40 of these little devils in one spot while walking some property in WI last week!

Outdoor Wisconsin | Program | #3406

[Latest Airdate: May 24, 2018]
[Original Airdate: February 8, 2018]

This week Jeff Kelm travels to Big Eau Pleine County Park in Marathon County to take part in the growing outdoor adventure of geocaching. Dan Small joins the Ojibwa Bow Hunters Youth Day in New Berlin where kids are able to connect with nature and try sports they've never experienced. Then Emmy Fink visits Weston Antique Apples in New Berlin and meets a family whose connection to their ancestors and the season's cycles are showcased in their unique heirloom apple varieties.

WEB LINKS
State Fair Park:
Ojibwa Bowhunters Youth Day:

Geocaching:
Big Eau Pleine County Park:

Weston Antique Apples:
Fish X:

Outdoor Wisconsin:




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ABOUT OUTDOOR WISCONSIN
Come along with us on adventures for every season in the Badger State as we hike, fish, hunt, camp, sail, canoe and explore Wisconsin's abundant natural resources.

ABOUT MILWAUKEE PBS
Milwaukee PBS is an award-winning multimedia producer and broadcaster of exceptional and meaningful local and national content. Licensed to Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee PBS is one of the highest-rated PBS stations in the country. Our unique, independent position in the community makes us the ideal source of community engagement as a storyteller, conversation facilitator and advocate. No matter where you come from or where you make your home, we encourage you to bring your world and Milwaukee into focus as a member of the Milwaukee PBS community.