The way early American scholars studied Beowulf reveals their investments in white Anglo-Saxonism and stolen land. Maxwell Gray considers the consequences of white settler scholarship on Native American lands.

The University of Wisconsin–Madison was constructed through the erasure of Native monuments. But the land remembers. Graduate student Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk) considers histories of settler erasure and contemporary efforts to commemorate Indigenous presence.

In his decades of work in forestry and cultural heritage for Menominee Nation, tribal member Jeff Grignon reads the lay of the land to find an ancient trail system.

This Halloween, consider the wild lives of bats today, adapting to a changing climate and facing a deadly (and spreading) fungus.

Histories of park planners like the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association offer a window into the complex pasts and exciting futures of public parks.

Dan Egan's compelling narrative of recent challenges to Great Lakes ecosystems raises intriguing questions about invasion, evolution, and species survival.

After historic floods devastate Wisconsin's Driftless Area, a team of scientists reflects on their fieldwork in the Kickappo River Valley to make sense of an entangled, multispecies world.

Phenology, tracking the comings and goings of species each season, provides insight into the disruptions caused by human-induced climate change.

When students critique outdoor fashion on campus, their views reveal gendered, ethnic, and regional stereotypes at play in the local meaning of international brands.

An ecologically diverse nature reserve in Wisconsin's famed Driftless Area thrives today because of state, tribal, and local collaboration.

Rural resentment is nothing new. When one university reckoned with it a century ago, it convinced farmers that the university worked for them—and improved itself in the process.

How can a community implement Aldo Leopold's notion of the land ethic? Kenya's Njuri Ncheke councils offer an example, balancing individual and group agency.

When is political resentment legitimate, and who gets to decide? Two recent books examine the emotional world of politics in rural Wisconsin and Louisiana.

An urban history nearly devoid of people nonetheless holds lessons for communal human life today.

A photo essay of mid-century domestic relics open a window on a woman's hard, heroic, uncelebrated life.

How do you teach someone to re-see a place they know well? Try these tips on introducing students to the practice of treating landscapes as historical documents.

Activists gather at a summit over factory farm expansion, offering an economic vision based on the value of clean water.

A traveling exhibit celebrates the life of John Muir and the centennial of the National Parks Service.

Repeat photography is used by a range of scientists and artists as a form of data collection, but also raises deeper questions about the nature of truth.

A story about sea serpents, water spirits, and how Madison's lake monster lore invites an ethic of coexistence.

The establishment of Station 9XM and experimental educational broadcasting is part of a larger story of radio and The Wisconsin Idea.

Volunteers and stakeholders bring prairie ecosystems back to life on the grounds of what was once the world's largest munitions facility.

Devising a fire ritual for a friend’s wedding inspires one author to consider how environmental rituals connect sacred and ordinary parts of our lives.

A new biography of one of the founders of city planning in the US connects urban reform efforts from the early twentieth century with today's environmental issues.

How can poetry, particularly the "ecopoetics" of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, help us dwell with our nonhuman places?

A gallery of photographs that meditate on the lesser-known corners of the UW-Madison Arboretum.

From "improved" velocipedes on skis to a Good Roads Movement, the history of bicycling is more surprising and wide-reaching than one might expect.

What is there to love about winter in a frigid place like Wisconsin? Lots, if you're willing to look.

A story at the intersection of truth, lies, memory, and imagination set in the Norwegian-American cultural landscape of Stoughton, Wisconsin.

In a second set of reflections on "Landscapes of Extraction," CHE members explore how communities negotiate the trade-offs of mining: private gain versus public well-being, individual enterprise versus regulatory caution, and economic necessity versus environmental risk.

Reflecting on "Landscapes of Extraction," CHE members explore the challenges of remembering and preserving the buried histories of mining landscapes.

What’s in a name? Edge effects in the history of ecology, the geography of Wisconsin, and the interdisciplinary values of CHE.