MADISON, Wis. - For a few weeks every spring, if you're lucky, musky make the leap from Wingra Creek over the dam into Lake Wingra. Once over, they'll try to spawn and eventually return to Lake Monona ...

Think of an outdoorsy American city, and perhaps what first comes to mind is Boulder, Colorado, or Salt Lake City, Utah. If you haven't spent a lot of time in the Midwest, then it might not occur to ...

Far from dead, Lake Wingra brimmed with fish, and wild rice beds attracted huge flocks of ducks and geese. Based on the 1834 federal land survey, the pre-settlement lake was double the size of today’s ...