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Dennis Ferraro offers hands-on learning about reptiles and amphibians in his Field Herpetology class at Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska every summer. Photo courtesy of Megann Timm.
Dennis Ferraro offers hands-on learning about reptiles and amphibians in his Field Herpetology class at Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska every summer. Photo courtesy of Megann Timm.

Ferraro-led class on herp hoppers, crawlers and slitherers a hit

Dennis Ferraro leads a boot camp with a waitlist to get in. Now approaching 70 years old, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor teaches what he calls "herpetology boot camp" at the Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska every summer. Continue reading…

 

Floating Wetlands Project Improves Water Quality

Image by Emma Saathoff A University of Nebraska-Lincoln team is leveraging the power of plants to combat nutrient pollution in urban ponds. Led by soil and water chemist Steve Comfort and watershed hydrologist Aaron Mittelstet, Nebraska students installed two floating wetlands in Lincoln’s Fox Hollow neighborhood. Continue reading…

 

Students help Crete look to its long-term tree needs

Husker students receive a briefing at the Crete Public Library as they begin gathering information for the community forestry toolkit they released in May. Image credit: Lord Ameyaw, School of Natural ResourcesOne of the best ways a community can safeguard its tree inventory is by promoting the trees’ genetic diversity. University of Nebraska–Lincoln students passed along those and other recommendations this spring to the City of Crete as part of a comprehensive community forestry toolkit. Continue reading…

 
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