Lugares de interés (POIs) del Mapa
1: Albion Armorers
New Glarus-based Albion sells historically accurate swords made to the exacting standards of medieval warriors. While the swords are more often used for decorating than for battle, customers are drawn in by the authenticity of Albion’s products.
Más sobre Albion Armorers2: Alisha Lopez
Abbotsford native Alisha Lopez opened a Mexican grocery, Estilo Mexicano, and serves as a translator and helper for the area's rapidly growing Hispanic community.
Más sobre Alisha Lopez3: Bat Management
A report on the research work of DNR bat ecologist Dave Redell who is investigating the problem of bat mortality and wind farms.
Más sobre Bat Management4: Beach Closings
Sandra McLellan from UW-Milwaukee’s Water Institute conducts research into waterborne disease at swimming areas near the city.
Más sobre Beach Closings5: Beach Research
UW-Oshkosh Microbiology Professor, Colleen McDermott and her students monitor beach water quality in Door County and research the source of pollution.
Más sobre Beach Research6: Berlin Cranes
Find out why Berlin High School’s artwork at the International Crane Foundation’s art exhibit were so superb.
Más sobre Berlin Cranes8: Cab Driver
Bruce Algozin has been driving a Badger Cab in Madison for more than 25 years. Algozin is a UW-Madison graduate with a degree in Philosophy and English. In addition to driving a cab, he is also a writer.
Más sobre Cab Driver10: Canoe Guy
He plans to paddle 300 Wisconsin rivers and he’s already bagged over 250. Join us and we follow Rick Kark on a trip down the Grant River to discover what launched this paddler’s quest.
Más sobre Canoe Guy16: Concertina
A profile of Art Altenburg’s Bar in Milwaukee, the only concertina bar in the Country.
Más sobre Concertina18: Croatian Eggs
Stephanie Lemke-Vuljanic creates beautiful embroidered
Easter eggs in the Croatian style and talks about her childhood in a poor
mountain village.
Más sobre Croatian Eggs19: Dam Removal
Dam removal on some Menominee River Tributaries upsets some who liked fishing on flowages.
Más sobre Dam Removal20: Danz School
At Danz Elementary School in Green Bay, children are already part of the global society. The school has a unique, dual immersion program that teaches students in English and Spanish.
Más sobre Danz School22: Download Suit
Racine grandfather is sued by the motion picture industry after his grandson illegally downloads movies on the home computer.
Más sobre Download Suit23: Elk Update
25 elk were released in the Chequamegon-Nicolet
National Forest near Clam Lake
in 1995. The elk population has
increased at a healthy rate until last year when various human-related factors
led to a 350% increase in mortality.
Más sobre Elk Update24: eMed Records
Marshfield Clinic is going “chartless” by replacing paper records with wirelessly accessible electronic medical records and images to save money and improve patient safety.
Más sobre eMed Records25: Ethanol Use
Ethanol producers open their own stations to promote use of wider variety of ethanol /gasoline blends.
Más sobre Ethanol Use26: Ethanol Xylose
Researcher at Forest Products Lab in Madison explores use of xylose, a sugar found in wood and agricultural waste, as a feed stock for ethanol.
Más sobre Ethanol Xylose27: Extreme Moves Dancer
This is a story about Li Chiao-Ping, a UW-Madison Dance Professor who continues to teach and perform, despite a near-fatal car accident that seriously injured her leg.
Más sobre Extreme Moves Dancer28: Fair Trade Coffee
A small Madison company imports coffee using the Fair Trade system from farmers in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala.
Más sobre Fair Trade Coffee29: Family House
Cordelia Taylor started a residential care facility for low income seniors in her own home that has grown to take up nearly one side of an entire block in inner-city Milwaukee.
Más sobre Family House30: Fish Carver
Entirely self-taught, Roger Newhouse carves highly realistic fish from wood.
Más sobre Fish Carver31: Florence Referendum
Florence School district holds last chance referendum to avoid going out of business and sending students to adjacent districts.
Más sobre Florence Referendum33: Geneva Lakes Dogs
Geneva Lakes Greyhound track in Delavan closed Sunday November 6, 2005 and left hundreds of greyhound dogs in need of adoption.
Más sobre Geneva Lakes Dogs34: Geocaching
The popularity of Global Positioning System devices has led to “Geocaching” – a sort of high tech scavenger hunt that’s become a near obsession for some participants in Green Bay for a special event.
Más sobre Geocaching35: Guardian Angels
Controversial anti-gang and crime program in Green Bay, Wi called the Guardian Angels.
Más sobre Guardian Angels36: Hip Hop Music and Autism
Annie O' Brien had trouble getting ready for school in the morning. She has multiple disabilities, including autism. Her in-home autism therapist suggested setting her morning routine to song. He is a hip-hop musician and wrote and recorded "Annie's Song."
Más sobre Hip Hop Music and Autism37: Historic Trees
A profile of Madison arborist Bruce Allison’s book, “Every Root an Anchor: Wisconsin’s Famous and Historic Trees”.
Más sobre Historic Trees38: Holiday Train
Canadian Pacific Holiday train crosses Wisconsin bringing holiday entertainment and raising awareness of hunger.
Más sobre Holiday Train41: Hugs and Hope
A Wisconsin-based nonprofit charity gives terminally ill children something to smile about at Christmastime.
Más sobre Hugs and Hope42: Huntington's
UW-Madison researchers discover naturally occurring substance that offers protection against diseases such as Huntington’s, ALS, and Alzheimer’s.
Más sobre Huntington's44: Jensen Trial
Former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen and Caucus Aide Sherry Schultz go on trial.
Más sobre Jensen Trial46: John Motoviloff
John Motoviloff is a hunter, an angler and a writer. He finds his refuge in the driftless area near the Kickapoo River. John got the inspiration for his book, “Flyfisher’s Guide of Wisconsin,” from the landscape that touches his soul.
Más sobre John Motoviloff47: Karner Blue Butterfly
The Karner Blue Butterfly is a federally endangered species yet is thrives here in Wisconsin. We travel to the Necedah Wildlife Refuge which has the largest concentration of Karner Blue Betterflies in the world to profile this animal.
Más sobre Karner Blue Butterfly48: Katrina Response
WI Air Guard pilot makes it his personal mission to reunite family evacuated from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Más sobre Katrina Response50: Kendo
Emeritus Professor, Minoru Kiyota recounts his life, as a student and teacher of the martial art of Kendo and as a professor of Buddhist studies.
Más sobre Kendo52: Label Quilt
Milwaukee artist Terese Agnew creates her latest work Portrait of a Textile Worker entirely from garment labels.
Más sobre Label Quilt53: Land Trust: Bayfield
As part of a continuing series on land trusts in Wisconsin, this story profiles Bayfield fruit farmers Rick Dale and Jane Dale, who worked with their local land trust to sell the development rights to their fruit farm.
Más sobre Land Trust: Bayfield54: Land Trust: Brule
A profile of Bill Rogers who owns land on the Brule River that has a conservation easement, negotiated with their local land trust, The Nature Conservancy.
Más sobre Land Trust: Brule56: Lena's Market
Inner city grocery chain in Milwaukee expands as national chains avoid the area.
Más sobre Lena's Market57: LIFEhouse
Graduating seniors at WI School for the Visually Handicapped in Janesville get chance to live on their own before graduating.
Más sobre LIFEhouse58: Loon Count
A profile of Roger and Lorna Wilson who participated in a five year loon census run by the Sigurd Olson Institute of Ashland.
Más sobre Loon Count61: Marine Memorial
Ryan Jerabek is the youngest Wisconsin soldier killed in Iraq and his family has created a memorial to the bronze star recipient at their home.
Más sobre Marine Memorial62: Martens
They weigh only one to two pounds, they’re just eighteen inches long but they’re one of the most ferocious animals in the state. The animal is the marten and it is so feisty and bold that the Ojibwe Tribe chose the marten as the clan animal to represent the warriors and the defenders of the village.
Más sobre Martens63: Mayor Perez
Sheboygan Mayor Juan Perez is the first Hispanic elected
mayor of major Wisconsin city.
Más sobre Mayor Perez64: Meth - Part 1
An overview of meth as the first in a four part series about methamphetamine in Wisconsin.
Más sobre Meth - Part 165: Meth - Part 2
Second in a series of reports on methampetamine in Wisconsin focusing on addiction.
Más sobre Meth - Part 266: Meth - Part 3
Third in a series of reports on methamphetamine in Wisconsin, focusing on law enforcement issues.
Más sobre Meth - Part 367: Meth - Part 4
Fourth in the series of reports on the methamphetamine problem in Wisconsin.
Más sobre Meth - Part 468: Mississippi Refuge
US Fish and Wildlife Service draws fire with long range plan for Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge.
Más sobre Mississippi Refuge69: Mole Lake Rice
The tradition of harvesting wild rice from Rice Lake, on the Mole Lake Chippewa reservation, is one that goes back for generations. That tradition and the lake itself, are now in trouble.
Más sobre Mole Lake Rice70: Oak Openings
The Nature Conservancy is logging off pines on the Crooked Creek Preserve. To haul the logs up the steep hills they turned to a team of experts, Dave Schrupp and his oxen, Dot and Dash.
Más sobre Oak Openings73: PCB Insurance
Dispute between paper companies and insurance companies threatens to delay cleanup of Fox River.
Más sobre PCB Insurance74: Peace Council
The Madison-based international organization called the Peace Council brings high-profile spiritual leaders together to defuse tensions around the world.
Más sobre Peace Council75: Poet - Lehman
In Wisconsin producer JoAnne Garrett and videographer Mike Eicher traveled with poet John Lehman to Sprecher’s Tavern in Leland. This quaint Sauk County bar is where patrons and employees exchange stories about life in Wisconsin. Lehman and Eicher created a visual poem based on their experience at Sprecher’s Tavern.
Más sobre Poet - Lehman77: Pulaski Paper
The Pulaksi News is the community of Pulaski's newspaper but it is reported and written entirely by high school students.
Más sobre Pulaski Paper79: Rain Garden
The Lodi community came together to build a garden that is both beautiful and environmentally beneficial.
Más sobre Rain Garden80: Road Crew
Recent ride program operating in two Wisconsin counties helps reduce drunk driving.
Más sobre Road Crew81: Ruby Slipper
Cranberry grower Dan Brockman’s invention may revolutionize the way those tart, red berries are harvested. Brockman has created a cranberry harvest machine called the Ruby Slipper.
Más sobre Ruby Slipper82: Special Olympics
The story of a confident man who has reached great achievement through the Special Olympics.
Más sobre Special Olympics83: Stone Sculptor
Ghulam Mustafa and his son Iftikhar Ahmed visit from Pakistan to demonstrate the Ancient stone sculpting techniques from a historic area called the Gandhara region.
Más sobre Stone Sculptor85: Teen Shaman
UW student Cheng Vang is not only an expert in Hmong culture, he's also said to be the Hmong world's youngest practicing shaman.
Más sobre Teen Shaman86: Tom Maulson
This is a profile of Tom Maulson, one of the main activists of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) Treaty Rights dispute of the late 1980s, former tribal chair of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Ojibwe and present-day entrepeneur.
Más sobre Tom Maulson89: Troy Gardens
Visualized journal of Troy Gardens in Madison with narration written by Marge Pitts.
Más sobre Troy Gardens90: Trufflemaker
Mike Roberts’ twin passions are coffee and chocolate and you can get both at Legacy Chocolates in downtown Menomonie. His hand-dipped truffles are developing a national following, especially after Newsweek magazine named them to a list of top “artisanal” foods.
Más sobre Trufflemaker91: War Referendum
A look at both sides of one of the more than 30 troops home now referenda set for the April fourth spring election.
Más sobre War Referendum92: Washington Island Beer
Washington Island is losing its agricultural traditions but a new beer brewed with wheat from the island may help bring back the farming way of life.
Más sobre Washington Island Beer93: Water Pipeline
Green Bay Suburbs build pipeline to Manitowoc to bring in Lake Michigan water to replace contaminated well water.
Más sobre Water Pipeline94: Watercolorist
Charles Peterson lives in Ephraim (Door County), WI. He paints nostalgic watercolors, many of which feature his signature ghostlike inhabitants from days past.
Más sobre Watercolorist95: Weed Lady
Tammy Bieberstein - Founder of The Madison Area Weed Warriors, a group dedicated to eradicating the invasive plant - garlic mustard.
Más sobre Weed Lady96: Well Witcher
Retired UW Board of Regents President and city of Superior attorney, Toby Marcovich, finds water under the ground as a hobby. He considers himself a “well witcher.”
Más sobre Well Witcher97: Wolf Dogs
A
profile of the use of Maremma dogs to guard sheep from predators.
Más sobre Wolf Dogs98: Worm Watch
A report on an unexpected invasive species in Wisconsin’s northern forests, the earthworm.
Más sobre Worm Watch99: WW Iraq Reconstruction
Former Eau Claire City Council President goes to Iraq to help form local governments following invasion.
Más sobre WW Iraq Reconstruction