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Opinion: Wisconsin conservation fund a casualty of GOP extremism

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The Cap Times

The Stewardship Fund has protected many of our landscape-scale natural assets, such as the 40,000-acre Turtle-Flambeau Flowage and the 70,000-acre Pelican River State Forest, the Lower Wisconsin Riverway and the last undeveloped section of the Wisconsin Dells. Just as important, it has set aside natural areas and built trails close to where the majority of the population lives. Many of our local parks, bike and hiking trails and nearby green spaces are there for you to enjoy because of the Stewardship Fund.

America 250: Historic events that have shaped Wisconsin’s history

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Wisconsin State Journal

The first dairy school in the U.S. was established at UW-Madison in 1890.

At first, only two students attended the first class, before the program’s enrollment jumped to 75. The enrollment jump was around a year after Prof. Stephen Babcock developed an inexpensive and practical test that measured the butterfat content of milk. The “Babcock test” provided an incentive to produce high-quality milk and allowed farmers to be paid accordingly.

Wisconsin inventions that changed the nation

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Wisconsin State Journal

UW-Madison is responsible for another massive medical advancement — but this one was pharmaceutical, not biological.

Warfarin, one of the most widely used blood thinners on the market, began as a treatment for cows. A Deer Park farmer walked into the laboratory of Karl Paul Link, a biochemist working in the university’s College of Agriculture, because his cows had developed a bleeding disorder.

Wisconsin’s oversized influence on American sports

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Wisconsin State Journal

There have been Super Bowls and Rose Bowls on the field and World Series on the diamond. World championships have been won on the basketball court and national titles on the ice. Athletes like Henry Aaron, Bart Starr and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weren’t born here, but they helped deliver trophies to our state.

“The state of Wisconsin was a part of their journeys to the hall of fame,” said Ashley Brown, the Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society at UW-Madison.

A Breese Stevens batboy becomes a UW baseball star, Rose Bowl official

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The Cap Times

The 100th anniversary of Breese Stevens Field has given pause to Otto Puls for reflection on its history, and his own with the Madison venue fronting East Washington Avenue.

Puls was his bat boy for games at Breese Stevens. In a 1954 Capital Times column, Cornelius wrote about Puls, who was then playing for the University of Wisconsin.

UW-Madison students make ‘captivating’ neon sculptures in popular class

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The Cap Times

Jade Levendoski put on her cowboy hat and flipped a switch. A red neon light illuminated the hat, matching the color in Levendoski’s pigtails.

“It looks so good!” Kylie Tsai exclaimed.

Levendoski and Tsai put the finishing touches on their art projects this month at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The two were among nine students who took a summer course called “Neon: Light as Sculpture.”