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Seven days in the Healing Circle

By Bay Paulsen, Staff Writer

     The Healing Circle Run is a seven-day and approximately 700-mile journey connecting 10 Ojibwe reservations. A core group completes the entire journey along with the sacred items and pipes while tribal members and staff from each reservation join in for the days in which the core passes through their community. The run is completed in a relay, with one or more people covering every mile, until each day’s leg is completed…

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Sea Lamprey Fundamentals 

by Bay Paulsen, Communications Specialist, GLIFWC Public Information Office

With resounding success in the last decades’ efforts to control the overwhelming population of sea lampreys in Gichigami’s waters and the native namegos (lake trout) being fully restored, readers may wonder what post-crisis management of this non-local being looks like.

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Wetland frog songs mark seasonal change, exemplify TEK

by Zach Wilson, GLIFWC Forest Ecologist

Spring and summer months in Ojibwe Country heralds the return of vibrant amphibian activity, notably among frogs and the one species of toad, the American toad (Anaxyrus americanus). Wetlands are bursting with life, and the calls of our frog friends are singing so loudly that at times they seem deafening.  These species enrich ecosystems and serve as vital indicators of environmental health.​

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It takes teamwork! Wisconsin DNR and GLIFWC review non-local forest beings, threats to northern forests.

by Steve Garske, Invasive Species Coordinator

In mid-April GLIFWC staff met with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Forest Health Team Leader Rebecca Gray in New Odanah. Gray detailed what the DNR was doing to address problems resulting from the influx of non-local beings, and to talk about ways that GLIFWC and the state can work together to minimize the threats they pose to local beings and their habitats. Topics ranged from a DNR-supported remote sensing project to locate…

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