Mississippi Valley Conservancy Land Manager Levi Plath tends to a fire as it works its way across Holland Sand Prairie. It will provide more-i…

The sun sets as a burn at Cassville Bluffs winds down.

Once a firebreak is cleared and a plan approved, the Mississippi Valley Conservancy fire team starts an initial line of fire at Cassville Bluffs.

A team goes through last-minute details prior to starting a burn at Cassville Bluffs.

Levi Plath

Josh Astell, center, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, is awarded the 2025 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Ethical Hunter Award by Ryan M…

Josh Astell takes an injured red-tailed hawk to the Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

Paige Pederson, the wildlife-operations supervisor at the Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center, says the rescued red-tailed hawk’s rel…

A green heron, appearing blue by iridescence, stands on a stick in a shallow pond.