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WPT's In Wisconsin Features Report on Efforts to Reduce Window Collisions By Migrating Songbirds

Oct. 29, 2009

For More Information:
Lynn Brockmeyer, WPT publicist, 608-263-3364, lynn.brockmeyer@wpt.org
Joel Waldinger, series producer, 608-890-2840, joel.waldinger@wpt.org

The next episode of In Wisconsin on Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) features reports on how the Wisconsin Humane Society is working to reduce window collisions by migrating songbirds, a program that brings health resources directly to farmers, an urban area of Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail and the culmination of a yearlong celebration around Wisconsin's Centennial of Flight.

The newsmagazine airs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 on WPT and is available in high definition. WPT will present an encore of the program at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. Milwaukee's MPTV will air the program at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 8.

In Wisconsin Reporter Jo Garrett looks at what The Wisconsin Humane Society is doing to save millions of migrating songbirds and how Wisconsinites can easily reduce the number of window strikes in their own homes.

An innovative award-winning program that brings health information and resources directly to farmers is the subject of a report from In Wisconsin Reporter Art Hackett. It features Rhonda Strebel, a rural health coordinator for a traveling clinic, whose goal is to improve health outcomes and reduce expenses.

Discover a very urban section of Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Janesville through the lens of videographer Mike Eicher.

One hundred years ago, Arthur Pratt Warner flew his Warner-Curtiss aircraft over the Morgan farm in Beloit. Intending to taxi the aircraft, he unexpectedly took to the air. The Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame is wrapping up a yearlong celebration around the Centennial of Flight. It invited Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 60 of Beloit to build a _ scale replica of the Warner-Curtiss aircraft. In Wisconsin Reporter Andy Soth reports.

This program's video postcard features autumn scenes from Florence County.

To learn more about what is coming up on the series, visit the In Wisconsin Web site at wpt.org/inwisconsin where the “Producer's Journal” blog offers daily updates with information about reports currently in production.

Funding for In Wisconsin is provided, in part, by Alliant Energy, and Animal Dental CenterOral Surgery Specialists of Milwaukee and Oshkosh, and BikeWisconsin.com.

WPT is a service of the Educational Communications Board and University of Wisconsin-Extension.

Wisconsin Public Television is a place to grow through learning on WHA-TV, Madison; WPNE-TV/TV, Green Bay; WHRM-TV, Wausau; WLEF-TV/TV, Park Falls; WHLA-TV, La Crosse; and WHWC-TV, Menomonie-Eau Claire.


DESCRIPTION: IN WISCONSIN #806
In Wisconsin features a reports on how the Wisconsin Humane Society is working to reduce window collisions by migrating songbirds, a program that brings health resources directly to farmers, an urban area of Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail and the culmination of a yearlong celebration around Wisconsin's Centennial of Flight.