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WPT's In Wisconsin Continues Reporting on Efforts to Reduce Window Strikes From Migrating Songbirds

Nov. 5, 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) continues reporting on efforts to reduce window strikes by migrating songbirds, looks at why lakes and streams are disappearing in Central Wisconsin, visits an alpaca farm in Mazomanie and reports on a triumphant celebration for a restored Native American effigy tree.

The newsmagazine airs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 on WPT and is available in high definition. WPT will present an encore of the program at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16. Milwaukee's MPTV will air the program at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 16.

Every year, up to a billion birds die from flying into windows. In Wisconsin Reporter Jo Garrett continues to investigate this phenomenon and looks at what Wisconsin businesses and homeowners can do to help songbirds during the migration season.

In the first of a two-part series, In Wisconsin Reporter Art Hackett looks into why Central Wisconsin is seeing a drastic decline in groundwater as streams dry up and lakes vanish. Now the state legislature is looking at change groundwater laws.

Contributing producer Steve Doebel visits Jean Garvey's alpaca farm in Mazomanie where the animals are viewed as an investment.

In 1991, Harry Whitehorse of the Ho-Chunk Nation created an Effigy Tree. Embellished with carved animal shapes, the tree became an important local symbol, but it was removed due to deterioration. The tree, recently restored and cast in bronze, received a warm welcome with a neighborhood party and Ho-Chunk ceremony. In Wisconsin's Andy Soth reports.

This program's video postcard features stunning autumn scenes of Vilas County's Little Star Lake.

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 #807
In Wisconsin continues reporting on efforts to reduce window strikes by migrating songbirds, looks at why lakes and streams are vanishing in Central Wisconsin, visits an alpaca farm in Mazomanie and reports on a triumphant celebration for a restored Native American effigy tree.