Nature & Environment

Health & Medicine / Related Stories / Hamburg / Marathon County / Nature & Environment / 1918-1945 / Region 4 - Center / Science & Medicine / Fromm Fox Fur Coat

Canine Distemper and the Fromm Vaccine

One of the most formidable problems that fur farmers faced in in the early twentieth century were the epidemic diseases that would strike their herds each year. Many fur farmers had come to see losses to distemper and other diseases as a…

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January 1, 2017

Green Bay / Brown County / Pre-1787 / Related Stories / Global Connections / Nature & Environment / Region 5 - Center East / Transportation & Tourism / Le Maire Sundial

French Cartography in the Great Lakes

French mariners and explorers using the Le Maire Sundial Compass depended on both their own specialized navigational expertise and maps produced by French cartographers. Many such maps were created based on explorer accounts of the navigable waterways between the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi…

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December 21, 2016

Industry / Langlade County / Lumber Industry / Related Stories / 1848-1877 / 1877-1900 / 1900-1918 / Manufacturing & Trade / Nature & Environment / Bark Spud / Region 2 - North East

The Lumber Industry in Northern Wisconsin

Prior to the Civil War, most of northern Wisconsin was inhabited by the Menominee and Ojibwe Indians and transient fur traders of European origin. Demand for wood in Chicago and Milwaukee after the Civil War brought lumbermen to the north woods. Initially,…

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February 1, 2016

Art, Sport & Entertainment / Sports & Games / Related Stories / Langlade County / Wolf River / Manufacturing & Trade / Nature & Environment / 1945-1965 / Region 2 - North East / Mepps Fishing Lure

Squirrel Tails Wanted? The Improved Mepps Lure

Driving through Antigo, visitors are often puzzled by a sign proclaiming “Squirrel Tails Wanted” advertised by Sheldons’ Inc., manufacturer of Mepps lures. Squirrel tail hair has unique properties ideal for lures. [1] Its addition to the Anglia has proven to be the…

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October 30, 2015

Art, Sport & Entertainment / Antigo / Industry / Sports & Games / Related Stories / Langlade County / Manufacturing & Trade / Nature & Environment / Region 2 - North East / 1945-1965 / 1965-1987 / Mepps Fishing Lure

Mepps Lures: The Antigo Connection

A chance encounter of an American G.I. in France after World War II with a local fisherman led to the development of a major industry in Antigo, Wisconsin and put Antigo on the sports fishing map.Frank Velek discovered a fishing lure while…

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October 30, 2015

Broad History / Industry / Langlade County / Wolf River / Related Stories / Lumber Industry / Manufacturing & Trade / Nature & Environment / Politics & Government / Region 2 - North East / Transportation & Tourism / Mepps Fishing Lure

The Wolf River

Todd Sheldon first discovered the virtues of the Mepps Aglia spinner and later realized improvements afforded by a tuft of squirrel tail while fishing at one of his favorite spots: the Wolf River. Today the Wolf continues to be a destination for sports…

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October 30, 2015