By PHIL POTTER Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge Manager Bill McCoy hopes the public is ready to "duck the issue" on Nov. 7, when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service hosts an open house forum about the refuge.

By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct. 21--Five islands on Wisconsin's Lake Michigan and Green Bay shorelines are now home to more than 12,000 nesting pairs of fish-feasting double-crested cormorants, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources would like to slash that number in half.

By Joe Grundle A Chicago wind farm developer can build a $250 million wind farm near the Horicon Marsh, the Wisconsin 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled July 25.

By Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jan. 23--FOND DU LAC -- Horicon Bank was looking for a way to increase its presence in the Fond du Lac market, but executives didn't want to add a run-of-the-mill branch.

By John Biemer, Chicago Tribune Jan. 18--Amid a federal budget shortfall, nine staff positions will be eliminated at Illinois' 10 National Wildlife Refuges, a move that will affect educational programs, ranger interpretation, maintenance and habitat restoration, the U.S.