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The vanishing present Wisconsin's changing lands, waters, and wildlife

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest of the world, the Badger State has been transformed by urbanization and sprawl, population growth, and land-use change. For decades, industry and environment have attempted to coexist in Wisconsin-and the dynamic tensions between economic progress and environmental protection makes the state a fascinating microcosm for studying global environmental.

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