Stories about applying LTER science and working with partners

Trout Lake Station highlights 100 years of research impact

The Ripple Effect - title over image of a small boat on a lake

Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Trout Lake Field Station Director Gretchen Gerrish in a new documentary highlighting local and global impacts of the research that has been conducted at the Trout Lake Station over the last 100 years of its operations. The National Science Foundation-funded Long Term Ecological Research Program has been an integral partner in… Read more »

Planted prairie strips are safe for native pollinators

Strips of native prairie planted within agricultural monocrops are not an “ecological trap”  for native pollinators, but also do not reduce the runoff of insecticides that may pose a threat.