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3    Oh, Dios m¡o.
4    Okay, you can stay there.
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6    En Am‚rica del Norte
7    y Am‚rica Latino.
8    ­Oh, Dios m¡o!
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10   Personas se han conectado
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42   Public Television.
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44   Hay una conexi¢n
45   entre el Condado de Calumet
46   en Wisconsin
47   y las monta¤as
48   que elevan del Oc‚ano Pac¡fico
49   de Corcovado en el Parque Nacional
50   de Costa Rica.
51   A tie between  
52   the skyscraper canyons in
53   the cities of North America.
54   >> It's a Canada Warbler.
55   >> And the rainforest
56   of the southern hemisphere.
57   This is the bond,
58   a winged connection
59   that we share.
60   >> That's a long ways on those
61   little wings.
62   >> These birds, neotrops,
63   short for neotropical migrants,
64   that breed in the northern
65   hemisphere and migrate
66   in fall and spring,
67   back and forth, to their home
68   in the southern forests.
69   Their numbers are falling,
70   and they face enormous perils,
71   north and south.
72   People are working to save them,
73   working to save "Our Birds."
74   
75   >> Look at that!
76   >> Wow!
77   >> That is amazing to me.
78   >> They take the leaves back and
79   they culture fungus on them.
80   Then they eat the fungus.
81   >> Change
82   is not always easy to see.
83   >> Oh, he's eating it.
84   >> See how he mushes it up
85   and eats it.
86   >> These birds watchers.
87   >> Look at that,
88   going back and forth.
89   >> All from Wisconsin.
90   >> A lineated woodpecker.
91   >> Are on an adventure
92   through the jungles
93   and beaches, and other
94   wild places of Costa Rica.
95   And in the process, they are
96   creating change, creating a new
97   model for bird conservation that
98   could be imitated worldwide.
99   It's a model pioneered
100  by this man, Craig Thompson.
101  He's an ardent birder.
102  >> Oh, yeah, it's just,
103  what are we gonna see next?
104  So you just get so jazzed,
105  and you go, "Ahh!"
106  He's backing up.
107  He's backing up!
108  >> Oh, he's turning.
109  He's moving!
110  >> Thompson works as a regional
111  land program supervisor.
112  >> Oh, my gosh,
113  it's a Swainson's Thrush.
114  >> For the Wisconsin Department
115  of Natural Resources.
116  This is his beat,
117  the Mississippi River
118  side of the state.
119  >> I got him!
120  >> You got him?
121  >> He knows birds
122  and conservation.
123  And he's traveled the world
124  in his time off
125  putting the two together
126  in a new way.
127  >> We're calling it
128  conservation birding trips.
129  What we do, is provide trips
130  basically at cost.
131  So we're offering bargain
132  basement prices, but the catch
133  is that every birder,
134  every participant that goes on
135  these trips has to donate
136  $500 per person to a non-profit
137  conservation organization.
138  And of course, the primary
139  emphasis of that is to save
140  habitat, to save wintering
141  habitat specifically, for those
142  birds that migrate from
143  Wisconsin down to Latin America.
144  >> Wintering habitat.
145  Home base, really, for these
146  tiny birds for most of the year.
147  >> It's a Philadelphia Vireo.
148  >> And different neotrops
149  need different habitat.
150  Red-eyed Vireos
151  prefer living up in the canopy
152  of the rainforest.
153  It's watery coastal mango forest
154  for the Prothonotary Warbler.
155  Weedy areas at the edges
156  of agricultural fields
157  for the Indigo Bunting.
158  The Eastern Phoebe likes
159  to hang by rivers and streams.
160  Places that are also valuable
161  and vulnerable.
162  >> The clock is ticking.
163  The population of Latin America
164  is expected to increase
165  by 100 million to 360 million
166  over the next 40 years.
167  That's a lot more people
168  in a very finite land mass.
169  They need clothes.
170  They need food.
171  They need shelter.
172  And they're going to want all
173  the things that we have in terms
174  of lifestyle, televisions,
175  washers, dryers, refrigerators.
176  The clock is ticking and we
177  really have a very limited
178  window to try to protect these
179  remaining big blocks of forest,
180  so we can hang onto the birds
181  that breed up in the States
182  and then winter down here.
183  Every acre that's protected
184  makes an enormous difference.
185  >> Fall, by a small pond
186  on the outskirts of Madison.
187  Wisconsin conservationist
188  Charlie Luthin is on the lookout
189  for the last of the small
190  fall migrants, the neotrops,
191  as overhead the big migrants
192  move through.
193  >> They came back
194  from the brink.
195  There were times when the Canada
196  Goose was rare in Wisconsin, but
197  now they're abundant, because of
198  the protective measures.
199  >> Birds are a big concern
200  for Luthin and the non-profit
201  organization he works for.
202  He's the executive director of
203  the Natural Resources Foundation
204  of Wisconsin.
205  It's a 2,500-member organization
206  with a budget of more than a
207  million dollars, and a singular
208  mission.
209  >> We raise money to give it
210  away, to support good
211  conservation work.
212  >> And birds have been
213  a big part of that.
214  The Whooping Crane.
215  The endangered Kirtland Warbler.
216  Turkey Vultures.
217  
218  But now, for the first time,
219  they're sending money south,
220  to buy land here.
221  >> I saw an opportunity
222  for our Wisconsin organization
223  to get involved
224  in Latin American conservation.
225  I couldn't have been happier.
226  I was thrilled.
227  If we, as Wisconsin citizens,
228  don't protect habitat
229  in Central America
230  and South America,
231  we'll lose the songbirds
232  in our backyard.
233  It's as simple as that.
234  They're really tropical birds.
235  They are more fluent in Spanish
236  than they are in English,
237  because they spend more than
238  half their life in either
239  Central or South America.
240  >> Yes, our birds
241  spend the bulk of the year here.
242  Sharing the landscape
243  with the locals.
244  
245  The Rufous Motmot.
246  The Spectacle Owl.
247  The Scarlet Macaw.
248  The tropical birds
249  who don't travel.
250  But our birds do.
251  Every fall, they pour south.
252  >> Imagine that this funnel
253  represents a map.
254  The top part of the funnel,
255  the wide part, is Canada
256  and the United States.
257  The lower part of the funnel is
258  the isthmus of Central America.
259  >> The grains of sand
260  are south migrating birds.
261  They funnel down, and they're
262  packed in to these wild places.
263  >> So, for every acre of Central
264  America, it's much more valuable
265  than an acre of North America,
266  because it's holding more birds
267  at a higher concentration.
268  >> These migrating birds
269  pour on the miles.
270  That backyard Baltimore Oriole
271  can log up to 3,000, one way.
272  The U.S. first third
273  is probably the easiest part
274  of their incredibly demanding
275  journey.
276  >> Now they actually migrate
277  over the Gulf of Mexico nonstop
278  for 500 miles.
279  That's going to take a Baltimore
280  Oriole probably 18 hours.
281  If it hits a head wind,
282  24 hours.
283  It's going to land on the
284  Yucatan Peninsula, exhausted,
285  emaciated.
286  It's got to be able to eat right
287  away if it wants to be able
288  to continue its journey another
289  700, 800, 900 or 1,000 miles
290  south to its wintering grounds,
291  either in Costa Rica or Panama.
292  We have to make sure
293  that they have quality habitat
294  when they actually arrive
295  on their wintering grounds.
296  It doesn't matter how many
297  of them we grow up in Wisconsin
298  if there isn't a place for them
299  to winter down here, we're just
300  growing more birds that are
301  going to come down here,
302  drift around and die.
303  
304  >> And they are.
305  >> The Wood Thrush
306  is going down.
307  Kentucky Warblers are going
308  down.
309  Even our Baltimore Oriole,
310  that species is declining
311  at 1.3% per year.
312  >> How to stop that decline
313  when the habitat here
314  is disappearing.
315  >> We have never sent money to
316  Latin America, despite the fact
317  that more than half of our birds
318  are entirely dependent
319  on the these forests
320  that you see around us.
321  
322  >> We do, however,
323  send money to Canada.
324  We have for years.
325  Wisconsin hunters
326  buy water fowl stamps.
327  Those monies buy habitat north,
328  across the border.
329  >> Upwards of $100,000 to
330  $200,000 a year that has been
331  applied to protecting
332  breeding habitats for water fowl
333  in Canada.
334  That's been going on for
335  the last couple of decades.
336  You know, the hunters understood
337  the notion of conservation
338  very early.
339  If they want to keep hunting
340  ducks, there has to be not only
341  breeding habitat for them,
342  but wintering habitat for them.
343  >> Thompson believes it's time
344  for birders to step up to the
345  plate.
346  >> Everybody on it?
347  >> These folks have.
348  Monies raised by these
349  conservation birders have saved
350  more than 2,000 acres of land
351  south of the border
352  for migratory song birds.
353  >> How's everybody feeling?
354  Everybody all right?
355  >> And in 2009, Thompson helped
356  bring in another partner
357  to purchase land.
358  A big one,
359  the state of Wisconsin.
360  >> I'm very proud to say, for
361  the first time in history, the
362  Wisconsin Department of Natural
363  Resources has actually donated
364  a substantial amount of funding
365  to help protect the wintering
366  habitat in Latin America
367  for our migratory birds.
368  It's never happened before.
369  Ground breaking in terms of the
370  department's participation.
371  >> The state of Wisconsin
372  donated $20,000
373  to save wintering habitat here.
374  Note that Wisconsin's donation
375  to save Wisconsin's birds
376  didn't require tax dollars.
377  >> It's not tax dollars
378  that are being used.
379  It was a wonderful donation
380  called the Bell Family
381  Foundation.
382  It's money that's actually been
383  donated to the agency.
384  We made a conscious decision
385  to apply those funds to help
386  purchase the Cerro Osa property.
387  >> The Cerro Osa.
388  >> Two-thirds of this property
389  is primary forest.
390  It's the good stuff.
391  Never been cut.
392  Thousand-year-old trees.
393  >> Here's a look.
394  In the foreground is Cerro Osa,
395  a 1,500-acre property,
396  forested and wild.
397  In the background, past the
398  hills, is the southern tip of
399  Corcovado, Costa Rica's largest
400  national park, 100,000 acres.
401  The goal is to create a corridor
402  of protected land,
403  from Corcovado, including
404  the Cerro Osa property, and
405  extending to the southern tip
406  of the Osa Peninsula.
407  
408  This peninsula,
409  the Osa Peninsula,
410  is a very rare place.
411  >> It is literally one of
412  the most biodiverse places
413  on the planet.
414  It's this big chunk of land
415  that sticks into the Pacific.
416  It's covered with forest.
417  And one of the reasons this
418  peninsula is so significant
419  is not only because it has all
420  kinds of species, many of which
421  are found nowhere else in the
422  world, but because there are
423  still big blocks of forest here,
424  there are hundreds of thousands
425  of acres of forest,
426  essentially in tact.
427  >> It's a mecca for thousands of
428  birds, including our migrants.
429  >> We have 240 species
430  of breeding birds in Wisconsin.
431  Of those, at least 54 species,
432  so 25% of our Wisconsin birds
433  are spending the winter
434  in a very, very tiny piece
435  of real estate,
436  the Osa peninsula of Costa Rica.
437  If we can save a portion
438  of the Osa Peninsula,
439  we'll be able to protect
440  a lot of our Wisconsin birds.
441  >> There are all kinds of
442  species that breed in Wisconsin
443  that depend on these big blocks
444  of forest, Swainson's Thrush,
445  Kentucky Warbler, Wood Thrush,
446  Olive-sided Flycatcher.
447  They're dependent
448  on these forests.
449  If the forests aren't there,
450  what happens from the practical
451  standpoint is they're pushed
452  into secondary habitats,
453  and a lot just don't make it.
454  >> They need a large intact
455  forest.
456  They aren't alone.
457  The forests of the Osa Peninsula
458  are still wild enough,
459  still big enough to support
460  five different species
461  of wild cats.
462  >> They hunt in a huge
463  home range.
464  Sometimes around
465  100 square kilometers,
466  400 square kilometers,
467  and sometimes more than
468  1,000 square kilometers.
469  >> Ricardo Moreno is
470  a Costa Rican researcher
471  who knows his forests.
472  >> It's the garlic tree,
473  the ajo tree.
474  It's one of the biggest around.
475  >> And his felines.
476  >> They will have different
477  sounds, and one of those
478  is like--
479  (imitates a roar)
480  >> And the connections between
481  these so-called large cats,
482  the jaguarundi, the ocelot,
483  the puma, the margay and
484  the jaguar, these wild cats of
485  the Osa, and Wisconsin warblers.
486  >> The connection between
487  the jaguars and the birds
488  of Wisconsin is pretty big.
489  Jaguars are a keystone species
490  and umbrella species.
491  If we can protect the range, the
492  huge home range of the jaguar,
493  we can protect all the animals
494  inside, the birds and the other
495  species can come and be safe.
496  >> Moreno and his research
497  partner, Aida Bustamante, have
498  pioneered a multi-year study
499  of wild cat population dynamics
500  and habitat needs.
501  >> This is one of our best
502  places.
503  We like it a lot.
504  >> To study these secretive
505  creatures, they've set up
506  one of the largest camera trap
507  survey grids in the world.
508  More than 100 square kilometers
509  large, across the Osa Peninsula.
510  >> Hopefully, we get some
511  wild cats.
512  Cross your fingers.
513  Wow, this is a margay.
514  >> Margays can spend
515  their entire lives up here in
516  these trees, just like a bird,
517  and never touch down.
518  >> We can identify the
519  individual with the spot
520  patterns, because every single
521  animal has different spot
522  patterns.
523  >> And like our birds,
524  many of these wild cats
525  are under pressure.
526  >> We know between 2008 and
527  2009, nine jaguars were killed.
528  And it's a lot.
529  A lot of jaguars killed.
530  >> Moreno explains, one of these
531  conservation concerns in
532  a PowerPoint for Thompson's
533  conservation birding group.
534  >> People still trade the skins
535  here in the Osa Peninsula.
536  That is horrible.
537  Look at this.
538  This is an ocelot fur coat
539  in Italy, in the black market
540  in Italy.
541  How many ocelot that people need
542  to make one fur coat like this?
543  Give me one number.
544  Sixteen? 20?
545  Okay, people need at least 30
546  ocelots to make one fur coat
547  like this.
548  Most of them have destroyed our
549  cameras, or stole our cameras.
550  If we don't do something really,
551  really hard and really good
552  with the locale people, we have
553  a forest without jaguars.
554  And I cannot imagine something
555  like this.
556  >> The solution
557  was in this forest.
558  They had to get the local
559  people, the local poachers,
560  to see this forest
561  in a different way.
562  So they offered up
563  a business plan.
564  >> If you know where one jaguar
565  is walking around, and you come
566  with us and put the camera, and
567  if the jaguar cross in front of
568  the camera and we get a picture,
569  we pay to you.
570  And all the poachers
571  are like, wow, hmm.
572  Okay, it's easy.
573  You need to talk with your
574  friends, the other poachers
575  around, because if one of your
576  friends stole the camera, or
577  broke, you don't have the money.
578  >> Save the camera.
579  Save money.
580  Save the wild cats,
581  and save our birds.
582  >> Everything in the wildlife
583  and in the forests
584  have a connection.
585  Everything.
586  We cannot see, like jaguars on
587  this side, birds on this side.
588  All that fauna are together.
589  If we can keep the forests
590  like this, I think it's magic.
591  It's going to continue coming
592  back, go to North America,
593  and come to the Neotropics.
594  
595  >> The local people are the key
596  of the conservation
597  around this area.
598  If we don't change the mind
599  of the people here,
600  we don't do anything
601  very, very good.
602  >> Juan Felice Mendoza Suarez is
603  one of the those local people.
604  His family goes back generations
605  in the Osa.
606  
607  Suarez describes his job
608  as farmer.
609  He plants trees for the
610  Costa Rican environmental
611  non-profit, Amigos de Osa.
612  Friends of the Osa has funded
613  a variety of conservation
614  projects, including
615  the initial purchase of land
616  in the Cerro Osa property.
617  The organization was founded
618  in part by this man,
619  Adrian Forsyth,
620  the guy on the right,
621  holding the chunk of bamboo.
622  >> So, anyways,
623  it's an experiment to try.
624  >> Okay.
625  >> And it'll be dirt cheap,
626  which is what we like.
627  We like dirt cheap, right?
628  >> Forsyth is one of the world's
629  top conservationists, a tropical
630  scientist, he's not a birder.
631  He's a dung beetle specialist.
632  >> You know, I'm really
633  a bug person by nature.
634  I think that's because of
635  my extreme myopia.
636  I like to look at little
637  close-up things.
638  I like nothing better than
639  to just sit on a log watching
640  an army ant swarm going by.
641  >> And maybe that explains his
642  start small, think big
643  approach to conservation.
644  On this day, he's showing
645  Kory Kramer, the supervisor
646  of the Cerro Osa, a new process
647  for preserving bamboo,
648  that could grow into a lucrative
649  local business using local
650  and dirt cheap materials.
651  >> If you make guava leaf tea,
652  you get this stuff
653  that looks like Coca-Cola.
654  I made a bunch last night
655  on the stove.
656  >> Forsyth has also come up with
657  a dirt cheap and very innovative
658  research model for restoring
659  damaged forest land
660  on the Cerro Osa.
661  It's funded through
662  contributions from various
663  Wisconsin businesses, including
664  Neenah Paper.
665  >> They are contributing $60,000
666  over three years to help
667  reforest areas that have lost
668  their original forest cover.
669  The funds go directly into
670  raising seedlings, and providing
671  funds for those people
672  who are planting those trees.
673  >> The funds for this replanting
674  project are routed through
675  the Natural Resources Foundation
676  of Wisconsin.
677  And the project includes some
678  unexpected co-collaborators.
679  >> I figured when you have to
680  replant a rainforest, you've
681  got to plant 140 different
682  species of trees.
683  >> Not so.
684  >> In fact, if you plant
685  the species that attract the
686  animals, they will recreate
687  a rainforest.
688  They eat the fruits.
689  They eat the nuts.
690  They walk through the woods
691  and they poop.
692  They leave the seeds
693  on the ground.
694  It's as simple as that.
695  Birds fly over head.
696  They drop seeds when they poop.
697  Bats fly in.
698  They may have some seeds
699  attached to their fur.
700  Or something like a parrot, or
701  a fruit-eating bird, may eat the
702  fruit part and drop the seed.
703  So you get your native animals
704  to come in and do the work
705  for you, if you attract them in.
706  It's a brilliant idea.
707  >> They're concentrating
708  on 30 species of trees, with
709  attractive seeds and fruits.
710  Kramer shows Thompson's
711  conservation birding group
712  the tree farm.
713  >> These are all wild nutmeg.
714  They call it fruita dorado here,
715  like golden fruit.
716  It opens up and it has
717  a bright red aril,
718  and that's what toucans, monkeys
719  and other animals eat.
720  They'll grab that seed.
721  You know how toucans eat, right?
722  They flip it up
723  and they swallow it.
724  They eat that and then
725  they regurgitate that seed.
726  They don't stay in one place,
727  obviously.
728  They'll fly somewhere and then
729  they'll spit that seed out.
730  >> So from these select trees, a
731  complete rainforest can emerge.
732  Those who plant those trees,
733  like Suarez,
734  are critical to that effort.
735  
736  >> Now, people are starting
737  to see the forests as a resource
738  that can create jobs for local
739  people that are based on living
740  with the forest rather than
741  being against the forest.
742  >> Given time and helped by this
743  innovative planting project,
744  rainforests will grow
745  to resemble these.
746  But Friends of the Osa is also
747  supporting innovative
748  alternatives to harvesting trees
749  here.
750  >> If you tell farmers they
751  can't go and cut a 500-year-old
752  tree to build a barn, you have
753  to provide some alternative to
754  them.
755  >> This is an alternative.
756  Bamboo.
757  Alfredo Quintero has a doctoral
758  degree in agronomy.
759  He's worked and studied abroad,
760  but made the decision to return
761  to his father's farm,
762  here in the Osa.
763  
764  Quintero has planted species
765  that are non-invasive and can be
766  viewed here in his demonstration
767  garden.
768  >> They grow in a clump and you
769  can manage them, just the way
770  you manage an orange tree.
771  It doesn't take off into the
772  forest and become a pest.
773  But you know, it provides great
774  framing timber for making
775  lightweight, super strong
776  structures.
777  >> Bamboo is strong enough
778  to serve as scaffolding.
779  >> There's a business in
780  providing green, sustainably
781  managed materials.
782  You get usable, terrifically
783  strong bamboo in five years,
784  versus waiting 500 years
785  for a rainforest tree
786  to finally mature.
787  >> Quintero's goal, supported by
788  Friends of the Osa, is to get
789  local farmers to see bamboo as a
790  sustainable, sometimes superior
791  substitute for wood from the
792  forest.
793  
794  This scientist hopes to provide
795  farmers with a new crop, a new
796  source of income that will also
797  save the forest and our birds.
798  
799  Thousands of miles north,
800  in Wisconsin's Vilas County,
801  another researcher, Amber Roth,
802  is searching for ways to save
803  our birds with a different
804  kind of forest.
805  >> This is an aspen clear-cut
806  that is about seven years old.
807  We have a Golden-winged Warbler
808  nest right in front of me.
809  >> Here's the important take
810  away from what Roth just said.
811  It's the tie between this young
812  scrubby aspen forest that grows
813  up after a clear-cut, and this
814  Golden-winged Warbler nest.
815  The nest was abandoned because
816  of predators, but that fact that
817  a Golden-winged nested here says
818  that this type of forest is
819  ideal for this sort of bird.
820  >> He's got a nest that he needs
821  to get back to.
822  >> But Golden-wings
823  are in trouble.
824  Their numbers are in serious
825  decline.
826  The birds face a triple whammy.
827  Their annual migrations
828  are ordeal enough.
829  >> It's thousands of miles,
830  potentially, that they're
831  traveling.
832  It's a long ways on those little
833  wings.
834  >> Once in their wintering
835  grounds, they face ongoing loss
836  of forest land to agriculture,
837  making this an increasingly rare
838  sight.
839  >> A Golden-winged Warbler!
840  >> Golden-winged Warbler.
841  >> Okay, go above the light,
842  and to the right of the light.
843  >> You got him!
844  >> Golden-winged Warbler.
845  >> Wow.
846  >> There he goes.
847  >> While back on their summer
848  breeding grounds, these low
849  shrublands, perfect for hiding
850  a ground-based nest
851  are disappearing.
852  Research is critical.
853  And Wisconsin is a critical
854  place.
855  >> Wisconsin is known as the
856  epicenter for Golden-winged
857  Warbler breeding.
858  >> These guys like young
859  shrublands.
860  >> And Golden-wings aren't the
861  only ones.
862  >> I have a male Chestnut-sided
863  Warbler.
864  >> There are many birds that
865  prefer this kind of place.
866  >> We have got a Black-and-white
867  Warbler.
868  This attracts birds that like
869  a dense shrub layer.
870  This is a Mourning Warbler.
871  Because they have a lot of cover
872  for their nests.
873  Okay, there you go, dear.
874  >> This landscape is valuable
875  for these birds.
876  It may also be increasingly
877  valuable for us.
878  That intersection is the focus
879  of her research.
880  >> We're part of a big
881  cellulosic ethanol project with
882  a variety of researchers who are
883  really interested in what the
884  future potential is for using
885  aspen and grasslands for
886  potential sources for cellulosic
887  ethanol.
888  >> Fill 'er up.
889  With aspen.
890  >> You can make ethanol from
891  any kind of plant material.
892  That's what we're trying to look
893  for, is sort of a win-win
894  scenario between our economic
895  needs and the needs of wildlife.
896  You know, is there a way that
897  we can help our fuel prices,
898  and can we also create better
899  habitat for wildlife
900  at the same time?
901  >> Here.
902  There you go.
903  >> Logging is big business
904  in Wisconsin.
905  And one that has faced
906  rocky times.
907  >> They're very interested in
908  new options, especially with
909  the way prices are in the timber
910  industry.
911  Cellulosic ethanol is a big,
912  emerging industry that has
913  a lot of potential.
914  When contractors come out and
915  cut a site like this, there's
916  a bunch of branches and twigs,
917  and portions of the trees that
918  aren't used.
919  It could be that they use more
920  of the forest when they cut.
921  They lose the potential of using
922  what we call waste wood
923  for cellulosic ethanol.
924  >> Can a new industry take wing?
925  >> This might be a juvenile
926  Nashville Warbler.
927  >> Can we change the way
928  we see this landscape,
929  see this forest
930  as a place that provides fuel
931  for us, jobs for the future,
932  and sustenance for our birds?
933  
934  To see a new way.
935  To work with the forest
936  instead of against it,
937  in the north and in the south,
938  and in the process,
939  protect our birds.
940  Deep in the rainforest
941  of Panama, Raul Arias,
942  a businessman, politician and
943  a leading light in Panama's
944  conservation community,
945  fell in love.
946  >> I don't know why, but I did
947  fell in love with this
948  structure.
949  It was a radar when the Cold War
950  was at its height.
951  The idea was to detect missiles
952  coming from Cuba,
953  or from the Soviet Union,
954  to attack the canal,
955  an early warning type of thing.
956  >> It was an abandoned
957  U.S. radar station
958  overlooking the Panama Canal.
959  >> I knew it could become
960  a great birding lodge.
961  Here, you see canopy birds
962  at eye level.
963  >> Now, it's called Canopy
964  Tower, and it's one of the top
965  birding sites in the world.
966  It helped spark an industry
967  in eco-tourism in Panama.
968  >> There was no precedent
969  in Panama.
970  I had my own doubts
971  if it would work or not.
972  It was a shot in the dark.
973  Fortunately, it hit
974  right in the center.
975  >> It's even sparked a companion
976  business in the highlands of
977  Panama, Canopy Lodge.
978  But most importantly, it's a
979  successful business, creating
980  jobs, working with the forest.
981  >> There are 18 people working
982  here.
983  
984  It's a 100% sustainable
985  activity.
986  >> Canopy Tower birding guide,
987  Jose Rafael Soto.
988  >> So far, it's a good job.
989  You can make a good living
990  out of this.
991  It's a Violaceous Trogan.
992  It's right out in the open,
993  sitting on a dead branch.
994  I have a house.
995  I got married and have a car.
996  So, when I tell people what
997  I do, they don't believe it.
998  Apparently, there's a male and
999  female trying to build a nest
1000 in a curled up cecropia leaf.
1001 >> It's a job with a future.
1002 >> They take their chances
1003 when they do this,
1004 because the leaf is dead.
1005 It will fall any time.
1006 >> Other jobs that cut down
1007 the forest can come and go.
1008 >> With eco-tourism, we can take
1009 people, hundreds of times,
1010 through the same forest
1011 and still be the same.
1012 >> The male is right next to
1013 her.
1014 >> The forest around Canopy
1015 Tower and the Panama Canal
1016 is now a national park.
1017 When the United States
1018 controlled the canal, for
1019 security reasons, there was no
1020 development allowed.
1021 It was an inadvertent windfall
1022 that saved bird habitat,
1023 and is critical for the smooth
1024 operation of the canal.
1025 >> The forest here has not only
1026 aesthetic value for enjoyment
1027 and eco-tourism,
1028 but also it protects
1029 the watershed of the canal.
1030 It's vital for Panama's economy,
1031 the canal and fresh water.
1032 It makes the watershed
1033 to be in good condition.
1034 If you have a good forest in the
1035 winter, the rains come and
1036 they just wash into the ocean,
1037 into the sea.
1038 >> An intact forest can provide
1039 the fuel for a canal, and
1040 shelter and food for our birds.
1041 The fuel for that long journey
1042 north.
1043 
1044 >> It's a day in May,
1045 a bleak and blustery day
1046 in downtown Milwaukee.
1047 >> Whoa!
1048 Wind hazard!
1049 >> It's early morning,
1050 and Scott Diehl is on
1051 a search and rescue mission.
1052 Search and rescue for small
1053 survivors like these.
1054 Diehl is the director of
1055 Wildlife Rehabilitation for
1056 the Wisconsin Humane Society
1057 in Milwaukee.
1058 >> A lot of glass.
1059 I think the bird collision issue
1060 has been one that has not had
1061 much awareness to date.
1062 And when these buildings were
1063 built, there wasn't an awareness
1064 about the magnitude
1065 of this problem.
1066 Reasonable estimates place the
1067 mortality between 100 million
1068 and a billion native birds dying
1069 in North America each year
1070 in window collisions.
1071 >> They hit the
1072 glass and they die.
1073 It's a phenomenon
1074 called window strikes.
1075 Hundreds of millions of neotrops
1076 perish every year
1077 in North America.
1078 The problem is particularly
1079 acute in Milwaukee, which is
1080 dead center in the Lake Michigan
1081 Flyway, a bird migration
1082 highway, and oh, so different
1083 from the rainforests back home.
1084 >> What happens down in this
1085 urban canyon down here,
1086 downtown Milwaukee,
1087 is there's so much confusion.
1088 There's so much glass,
1089 and so many reflective surfaces
1090 that the birds
1091 really get confused.
1092 They land in this area
1093 and then it's literally
1094 a gauntlet of glass and steel
1095 and concrete that they just
1096 are not prepared to deal with.
1097 >> And all these reflections
1098 and light in this gauntlet
1099 of glass can cause collisions.
1100 >> They hit the building
1101 for one of two reasons.
1102 Either they see the lights at
1103 night when they're migrating and
1104 they get confused by the lights.
1105 The other reason they collide
1106 is daytime collisions,
1107 where it's just reflections
1108 of the landscape on the glass.
1109 >> Or the birds actually see
1110 through these windows to
1111 greenery beyond, and think
1112 they've found a passageway.
1113 >> They have no concept
1114 of glass.
1115 And if you think about the
1116 jungle or the forest where these
1117 birds live, it's much like
1118 flying through the trees,
1119 where there are gaps, and so on,
1120 and winding their way
1121 through the foliage.
1122 So when they see in one window
1123 and out another, they think
1124 they can pass through there,
1125 you know, with deadly
1126 consequences.
1127 >> So, every morning during
1128 migration season, Diehl and
1129 a team of volunteers
1130 fan out across the city.
1131 It's search and rescue below big
1132 buildings with many windows.
1133 It's search and rescue to count
1134 the dead and save the injured.
1135 WIngs is the name
1136 of Diehl's rescue group.
1137 Wisconsin Night Guardians
1138 for Song Birds.
1139 >> We've got a little bird
1140 up ahead here.
1141 I'm going to go up and see
1142 if I can snag the little guy.
1143 >> Just outside one of the
1144 city's biggest skyscrapers,
1145 Diehl finds his first casualty,
1146 a bright yellow warbler, lying
1147 still against the gray cement.
1148 >> It's a Canada Warbler.
1149 Ah, poor little guy,
1150 or girl, as the case may be.
1151 >> Research has shown that one
1152 out of every two window strikes
1153 leads to a fatality.
1154 Often birds that may appear
1155 merely stunned have internal
1156 injuries that lead to their
1157 demise.
1158 >> We've got a Nashville Warbler
1159 that was found dead
1160 down at U.S. Bank,
1161 north side of Michigan,
1162 between Cass and Van Buren.
1163 This bird that weighs ten grams
1164 has flown to Costa Rica
1165 or Panama to Wisconsin,
1166 across so many hazards.
1167 They're at once amazing in their
1168 capability flying those
1169 distances and traversing all
1170 those mountain ranges, rivers
1171 and oceans, and yet, you know
1172 1/16" thick piece of glass is
1173 enough to stop them permanently.
1174 Staggering, staggering.
1175 And we're talking about
1176 dump trucks-full of these
1177 beautiful birds,
1178 just dying senselessly.
1179 And again, most of us
1180 aren't even aware of the issue.
1181 If something the size of a deer
1182 was laying dead outside these
1183 businesses each morning,
1184 or ten or 20 of them,
1185 you can really believe
1186 that someone to take notice.
1187 >> There you go.
1188 There you are.
1189 >> Most are in the dark
1190 about this problem.
1191 The Wisconsin Humane Society
1192 is on a mission to change that.
1193 >> It's great to be able to
1194 treat that bird and hopefully
1195 rehabilitate it, get it out
1196 again, get it released.
1197 But how much better is it to
1198 prevent this in the first place?
1199 To stop this needless death
1200 and suffering for birds.
1201 >> Rehabilitation is costly.
1202 And wildlife rehabilitators
1203 receive no public dollars.
1204 They exist on private donations.
1205 So the volunteers not only
1206 collect birds, they also compile
1207 information on the location
1208 of the window strikes.
1209 The hope is to persuade
1210 business owners to take steps
1211 to cut down on collisions.
1212 >> We want to be able to go
1213 back to them and say, here's
1214 what we found, and be able to
1215 actually document the problem.
1216 It gives us a little bit of
1217 backup when we approach these
1218 folks and ask them to help us
1219 save birds.
1220 >> Cutting down on collisions
1221 needn't be costly.
1222 In fact, it can save businesses
1223 money.
1224 A voluntary program called
1225 "Lights Out Toronto"
1226 hits the off switch
1227 from 11pm to 6am during fall
1228 and spring migrations.
1229 >> Those businesses saved
1230 hundreds of thousands of dollars
1231 and reduced their carbon
1232 footprint.
1233 >> Easy peel window treatments.
1234 Put them up during migration,
1235 then take them down,
1236 on just the first two floors
1237 of buildings and homes
1238 can cut down enormously
1239 on death and injuries
1240 from daytime collisions.
1241 Dead or alive?
1242 >> Alive!
1243 Fortunately, alive,
1244 which is wonderful.
1245 >> The little warbler
1246 Diehl found is alive.
1247 Diehl bundles the bird
1248 into a simple paper bag.
1249 It's dark and safe.
1250 And the bird won't injure
1251 herself if she flutters about
1252 and tries to fly.
1253 And it's off
1254 to the Humane Society.
1255 >> Window collisions, we'll look
1256 for eye injuries, head injuries,
1257 blood coming from the mouth.
1258 You can see this eye
1259 is a little bit swollen.
1260 It looks a little dehydrated,
1261 kind of droopy-eyed.
1262 It's not open all the way,
1263 like this one is.
1264 I'm just testing to see how
1265 they bounce back into place.
1266 If they're broken, they'll droop
1267 down and they won't pop back
1268 into place like this one's
1269 doing.
1270 He looks in good condition.
1271 I'm not feeling any breaks
1272 in the wings.
1273 >> After assessment, it's time
1274 for a little rehydration
1275 and a warbler-sized amount
1276 of medicine.
1277 >> I'm just going to put it
1278 on the seam of the bill.
1279 This helps with pain, and
1280 swelling, and inflammation.
1281 >> The same day as this rescue,
1282 Diehl drove to Doctors Park,
1283 north of Milwaukee, to band--
1284 >> Okay, bud.
1285 Be careful.
1286 >> And release four birds
1287 brought back to health
1288 after window strikes.
1289 >> So, just roll him over there,
1290 Elizabeth, and let me get a leg.
1291 Okay, ready to go.
1292 Be careful there, kiddo.
1293 Don't you hit any windows.
1294 Ah, success.
1295 Ha-ha!
1296 Wonderful.
1297 Oh, I hope they do well.
1298 We gave them a second chance,
1299 anyway.
1300 There's 10,000 windows between
1301 here and where some of these
1302 guys want to be.
1303 So we're hoping that people will
1304 get involved and take action on
1305 their own homes and businesses
1306 to help these little guys
1307 make it.
1308 >> The migrations
1309 of these tiny birds,
1310 traveling thousands of miles
1311 twice a year, is full of peril.
1312 >> Somebody who lived near
1313 my mother's house had
1314 a Baltimore Oriole in a cage.
1315 It was very sad for me to know
1316 that this bird traveled for
1317 miles and miles, to get down
1318 to Panama and get trapped.
1319 I told him, you have to let it
1320 go, because it needs to go back
1321 home.
1322 If you want to see him, put a
1323 feeder outside your house, and
1324 it will come to the feeder.
1325 Then you will provide him with
1326 food, like you would with people
1327 who migrate.
1328 You offer them water and food
1329 to keep going.
1330 Well, do it with the birds, too.
1331 >> They need shelter and food,
1332 stopover habitat.
1333 And 30 miles north of Milwaukee,
1334 they're making some.
1335 Just outside of Port Washington,
1336 people had the vision to put
1337 this old golf course to new use.
1338 From swing time to sing time.
1339 This 116-acre parcel
1340 was purchased by the Ozaukee
1341 Washington Land Trust.
1342 Shawn Graff is the director.
1343 >> We purchased the site with
1344 the idea that it's number one
1345 function here is for the birds.
1346 Literally.
1347 As a matter of fact, we changed
1348 the name from Squires Country
1349 Club to Forest Beach Migratory
1350 Preserve.
1351 This was a real opportunity.
1352 This was one of the last
1353 remaining 100+ acre sites
1354 that was not developed
1355 on Lake Michigan.
1356 >> This lake is a critical
1357 flyway for migrating birds.
1358 Birds need this lake
1359 and land along it.
1360 Kim Grveles, conservation
1361 biologist for the Wisconsin
1362 Department of Natural Resources,
1363 and one of the advisors
1364 to the Forest Beach project.
1365 >> They migrate at night,
1366 and they fly all night.
1367 Many flocks will find themselves
1368 out over Lake Michigan
1369 when dawn hits.
1370 They can't put down in the
1371 water, so they must find habitat
1372 quickly, because they could
1373 easily get picked off by a hawk
1374 that's also migrating
1375 at that time of the year.
1376 >> They need protection
1377 and they need food.
1378 >> When they arrive at a
1379 stopover site, oftentimes their
1380 energy stores have been depleted
1381 and they are voraciously hungry.
1382 They're actively foraging and
1383 feeding, and moving around in
1384 the trees and shrubs,
1385 and grabbing what insects
1386 they can find.
1387 >> Birds touch down and bulk up
1388 all along Lake Michigan.
1389 Biologists describe the quality
1390 of the landing spots this way.
1391 >> The fire escape,
1392 the convenience store,
1393 and the full service hotel.
1394 Well, a fire escape is a place
1395 that will save the bird's life
1396 when it's migrating.
1397 It's going to be a very nominal
1398 habitat, such as a hedgerow in
1399 a box store, or even the railing
1400 of a ship on Lake Michigan.
1401 It gives the bird a place
1402 to put down and rest.
1403 >> Next up,
1404 the convenience store.
1405 Kind of what's here now.
1406 >> A convenience store would be
1407 the next best thing for a bird.
1408 It may not replace all the
1409 energy that the bird has spent,
1410 but it will give it
1411 some replacement.
1412 A full-service hotel would be
1413 a large landscape with a mosaic
1414 of different habitat types.
1415 That would give them everything
1416 they need to build up their
1417 energy stores for a long fight.
1418 >> Different species need
1419 different habitats.
1420 We're hoping to have woods.
1421 We're going to have grassland.
1422 We'll have savannah.
1423 We'll have shrubland,
1424 all different types of areas for
1425 different species to have their
1426 best shot at surviving
1427 that journey that they take
1428 along the flyway.
1429 We're told by some of our
1430 experts that this is the first
1431 time that they've heard of a
1432 preserve that's being developed
1433 specifically for migratory
1434 stopover habitat.
1435 They haven't heard of one
1436 in Wisconsin, or anywhere
1437 in the country.
1438 This is one of those projects
1439 where a lot of people thought,
1440 you know, you're crazy, buying
1441 this golf course and trying to
1442 turn it into preserve.
1443 They thought I had gone cuckoo.
1444 It's really a pleasure and
1445 rewarding that we're making it
1446 happen.
1447 
1448 >> Habitat, created.
1449 Habitat, found.
1450 On the other side of the state,
1451 Craig Thompson is birding
1452 in his home town of La Crosse.
1453 >> It's a little warbler
1454 called a Tennessee Warbler.
1455 That's it, right there.
1456 (imitates warbler's song)
1457 It's got this accelerating
1458 staccato call.
1459 That bird just spent the winter,
1460 probably in Costa Rica,
1461 and is headed to boreal Canada
1462 to breed.
1463 This is a species that we'll
1464 only hear during migration.
1465 >> The sharper-eyed among you
1466 may have noticed the headstones
1467 behind Thompson.
1468 Yes, that's right,
1469 he's birding in a cemetery.
1470 And here's the story.
1471 Cemeteries have a role to play
1472 in international conservation
1473 efforts for migrating birds.
1474 This one is called Oak Grove,
1475 and it's not way out in the
1476 suburbs.
1477 Nope, it's nearly downtown.
1478 >> We're almost smack in the
1479 middle of the city of La Crosse.
1480 It's a town of 50,000.
1481 It's highly urbanized.
1482 It's busy, busy, busy.
1483 >> Take a look at the city of
1484 La Crosse, and it's easy to see
1485 how places like cemeteries can
1486 provide a little pocket of
1487 green, a kind of avian pit stop
1488 for the birds.
1489 Oak Grove joins up with
1490 the La Crosse marsh on one end,
1491 making for 80 acres
1492 in the heart of the city.
1493 It's inadvertent,
1494 but terrific bird habitat.
1495 The soundtrack tells the story.
1496 >> I hear a ball game going on
1497 behind us, or some kind
1498 of baseball practice.
1499 I can hear car traffic and
1500 vehicles over on Lang Drive.
1501 At the same time, we're hearing
1502 American Redstarts, a Yellow
1503 Warbler way off in the distance,
1504 a Baltimore Oriole,
1505 Chipping Sparrows,
1506 and the works.
1507 So it's this mishmosh of all
1508 kinds of nature and urban
1509 environment that come together.
1510 >> Okay, they don't mind the
1511 city.
1512 But what draws them here?
1513 Let's go back to that overview
1514 of La Crosse.
1515 It's a river town, built on the
1516 banks of the Mississippi.
1517 Think Interstate
1518 for migrating birds.
1519 >> It's a monstrous river,
1520 in fact the largest river
1521 in the United States that gets
1522 tremendous traffic, both from
1523 people and from wildlife,
1524 particularly migratory birds.
1525 You get millions of birds,
1526 literally, that funnel up the
1527 Mississippi, especially to the
1528 bird that's just migrated up,
1529 and they're exhausted
1530 and they're really hungry.
1531 They drop down and they
1532 have to find something to eat.
1533 If they drop in a bed of gravel
1534 with a couple of mums poking out
1535 of it, that's not a good habitat
1536 for them.
1537 >> This place wasn't landscaped
1538 for birds.
1539 It was landscaped
1540 for aesthetics.
1541 What resulted is a pretty,
1542 peaceful place that is also,
1543 happily, an avian smorgasbord.
1544 Which is great, because
1545 different birds have different
1546 dining demands.
1547 >> This is perfect.
1548 There are young trees.
1549 There are old trees.
1550 There are shrubs down near the
1551 ground level that the thrushes
1552 and the towhees will hop around
1553 in.
1554 So, you've got birds
1555 that are scattered throughout
1556 that entire zone,
1557 from ground layer up to canopy.
1558 They're everywhere.
1559 The birds just love it.
1560 There's an oriole singing above
1561 us right now.
1562 As habitats continue to shrink
1563 worldwide, these kinds of places
1564 are going to provide safe refuge
1565 for birds, ultimately,
1566 if they're done right.
1567 So to have this series
1568 of habitats that are linked
1569 in some way, along their entire
1570 migratory pathway is vital for
1571 the conservation of all species
1572 that migrate back and forth.
1573 >> And every bit of green,
1574 of the right kind, can help.
1575 Thompson takes us
1576 to his backyard.
1577 >> This yard is less than
1578 two-tenths of an acre, and we've
1579 got it crammed wall-to-wall
1580 with flowers and
1581 flowering shrubs and trees.
1582 >> Neighbors see a pretty yard.
1583 Migrating neotrops will see
1584 an avian diner full of bugs,
1585 full of food.
1586 >> This is all basically
1587 native plants.
1588 These are species called
1589 Culver's Root, Bergamot, Rigid
1590 Stem Goldenrod, New England
1591 Aster, and a host of other
1592 things that are all planted
1593 to benefit bugs.
1594 So when this is blossoming, when
1595 it's at the peak of phenology
1596 blossom-wise, in midsummer,
1597 this place is a nectar factory.
1598 >> It's a food factory
1599 underfoot, too.
1600 Check out the lawn.
1601 >> What I want to point out here
1602 is that this is just filled
1603 with weeds.
1604 We've got clover,
1605 and we've got chickweed,
1606 and we've got plantain,
1607 and we've got dandelions.
1608 I don't make an effort
1609 to get rid of any of them.
1610 The reason I don't is because
1611 monotypic, dense turfgrass
1612 is a biological desert.
1613 It doesn't provide
1614 a lot of habitat for anything.
1615 You want to provide plants
1616 that bugs feed on.
1617 Then those in turn feed
1618 bigger bugs.
1619 Those in turn feed birds.
1620 That's what we're trying
1621 to accomplish here.
1622 The Siskens and the Goldfinches
1623 come in and eat the dandelions.
1624 The Chipping Sparrows will eat
1625 these dandelion heads.
1626 Anybody can plant their yard to
1627 make it worthwhile for wildlife.
1628 It's really easy.
1629 It's fun.
1630 It takes a little bit of time to
1631 see it come into maturity, but
1632 it's incredibly satisfying.
1633 And to see the birds respond
1634 when they come in, jackpot.
1635 Mission accomplished.
1636 >> And as if on cue, minutes
1637 later, we hit the jackpot.
1638 >> I just heard
1639 the "chip" back here.
1640 It won't be coming into these,
1641 we're too close, but,
1642 there it is!
1643 Here it comes into
1644 the humming bird feeder.
1645 This is so cool.
1646 Here's a bird that just spent
1647 the winter in Central America.
1648 Somehow, in a miraculous flight,
1649 made it all the way across
1650 the Gulf of Mexico.
1651 This is a bird that weighs
1652 less than a dime.
1653 It flew non-stop across
1654 the Gulf of Mexico and somehow
1655 flew all the way up through
1656 every conceivable hazard
1657 to get to our backyard.
1658 Now it's feeding here
1659 and nesting here.
1660 >> Of course, this
1661 is all backyard
1662 for the birds.
1663 
1664 The wintering grounds.
1665 The summer nesting territory.
1666 And the flyways
1667 that stretch between.
1668 Saved,
1669 created,
1670 added to,
1671 by the efforts of governments
1672 and organizations.
1673 But most often,
1674 by the push of individuals.
1675 >> We need committed,
1676 passionate individuals.
1677 >> Good morning.
1678 >> Hi, nice to see you again.
1679 One individual can make
1680 so much difference.
1681 >> In Panama, monies donated
1682 by the birders of Thompson's
1683 conservation birding trip
1684 paid for three years
1685 of operating expenses, including
1686 mist nets, and collection bags,
1687 and materials to collect data,
1688 for a bird banding station run
1689 by researcher Chelina Batista
1690 and her volunteer crew.
1691 >> This is a station, which is
1692 monitoring overwinter,
1693 station for migratory birds.
1694 Because we are interested to
1695 know what happened with the bird
1696 that came from the USA, and
1697 they spend their winter here.
1698 >> From deep in the rainforest
1699 from Central America...
1700 
1701 To a park in downtown Milwaukee,
1702 Tim Vargo, research director
1703 of the Urban Ecology Center,
1704 oversees another crew
1705 of volunteers.
1706 >> The value is tremendous.
1707 The work that our volunteers
1708 are doing are published
1709 in peer review journals.
1710 >> 13.5 grams.
1711 >> They are doing real science.
1712 >> Miles apart,
1713 working together.
1714 >> If we can save that bird
1715 coming from North America,
1716 we are saving also, our bird.
1717 Or if we save the bird here,
1718 we can save the bird there.
1719 >> Oh, you pretty thing.
1720 Look at you!
1721 >> Birds can connect us.
1722 >> This is so cool.
1723 >> It's just one planet.
1724 >> The birds know it.
1725 >> Hey, sweet thing, how are ya?
1726 If you're happy, I'm happy.
1727 
1728 Oh, my god!
1729 That was so incredible!
1730 >> Carijean, you haven't
1731 let a bird go in a while,
1732 do you want to do this one?
1733 >> Volunteer Carijean Buhk.
1734 >> You are holding a bird that
1735 might have started in Mexico,
1736 Panama, or somewhere else,
1737 and we're just a tiny part
1738 of its life.
1739 You realize that you're part of
1740 something really big, and yet
1741 really small at the same time.
1742 >> You can go now.
1743 >> There he goes!
1744 >> These small travelers.
1745 >> It's a Canada Warbler.
1746 >> Sky jewels, seldom seen.
1747 >> This might be a juvenile
1748 Nashville Warbler.
1749 >> Reminds us
1750 of the sky we share,
1751 their song
1752 speaks to our connection.
1753 >> We have to work as a team.
1754 We have to look at this
1755 as not just
1756 as two separate countries,
1757 but one land, one big piece
1758 of land for the birds.
1759 
1760 >> Major funding
1761 for "Our Birds" was provided
1762 by the people of Alliant Energy,
1763 who bring safe, reliable and
1764 environmentally friendly energy
1765 to keep homes, neighborhoods,
1766 and life in Wisconsin
1767 running smoothly.
1768 Alliant Energy, offering
1769 energy saving ideas on the Web.
1770 And the Animal Dentistry
1771 and Oral Surgery Specialists
1772 of Milwaukee, Oshkosh
1773 and Minneapolis.
1774 A veterinary team working
1775 with pet owners and family
1776 veterinarians throughout
1777 Wisconsin, providing care for
1778 oral disease and dental problems
1779 of small companion animals.
1780 Additional funding is provided
1781 by the Paul E. Stry Foundation
1782 of La Crosse, Wisconsin,
1783 and Friends of Wisconsin
1784 Public Television.
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