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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Keep Our Northwoods Waters Clean and Clear
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:16
	Publish Date:		2019-03-25 05:00:00
	Description:		When you think of the benefits of living up north, do you include tall trees and clear water? The Masked Biologist does, and that is the topic of this week’s Wildlife Matters . When my wife and I decided to move our young family from the wide-open prairie to Wisconsin’s great Northwoods, we would always tell people it was for “tall trees and clear water.” If you have never driven through the prairie pothole region, it is basically square mile after square mile of row crops, with a smattering of grasslands and wetlands here and there. The closest you come to a forest is probably looking down a row of telephone poles. The water was cloudy, with poor visibility often less than one foot. When we brought our first child to the north, we went to a beach and he marched right in until he was deep enough that you could see the breath from his nostrils making waves in the water. Then he stared at his toes as he raised and lowered first one leg, then the other. He had never seen his legs in lake
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