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Most of the the articles for Short Ears, Long Tales have been researched and written by Kathy Hanson and Allison Slavick. Kathy Hanson is a free-lance writer for various local and regional newspapers and Duluth magazines. She was a staff reporter for the Sawyer County Record, Sawyer County field editor for Our Wisconsin magazine, copy editor for the Bayfield County Journal, and feature writer for the Sawyer County Gazette. She was previously a business writer, columnist and copy editor for the Sawyer County Record.

Allison Slavick works as a consultant to nonprofits all over the country, especially museums. For fifteen years she directed the Cable Natural History Museum, and previously worked as a scientist at the New York Botanical Garden and the Smithsonian Institution.

Issue 63 october 2023 ‘The Autumn Leaves, Shoreline Restoration and Water Quality’

Issue 62 sept 2023 ‘Fighting the Good Fight’

Issue 61 aug 2023 ‘Turtle Camp!’

Issue 60 june 2023 ‘500 Million Years Ago At LCO’

Issue 59 may 2023 ‘Migration Nation’

Issue 58 april 2023 ‘The Clean Water Act at Fifty’

Issue 57 oct 2022 ‘Aquatic Invasive Species - What Happened in 2022’

Issue 56 sept 2022 ‘Turtles, Turtles, Everywhere’

Issue 55 aug 2022 ‘Mighty Merlin’

Issue 54 july 2022 ‘Water Quality’

Issue 53 june 2022 ‘Angry Mother Bear Defends Yearling Cub and is Killed by Couple Who Shouted at Her’

Issue 52 may 2022 ‘Tales of Two Plants’

Issue 51 april 2022 ‘Riprap is Not the Answer’

Issue 50 sept 2021 ‘Milfoil(ed) Again’

Issue 49 aug 2021 ‘Consider the Milkweed’

Issue 48 july 2021 ‘Invasive Mystery Snails’

Issue 47 june 2021 ‘The Early Voyages of the Eco-Harvester’

Issue 46 may 2021 ‘Lac Courte Oreilles: Have we learned anything from the past?’

Issue 45 april 2021 ‘Do Swimmers Itch?’

Issue 44 oct 2020 ‘Fires!’

Issue 43 sept 2020 ‘The Poetic Tree’

Issue 42 aug 2020 ‘Tales of the Great Lakes’

Issue 41 july 2020 ‘For the Love of Loons’

Issue 40 june 2020 ‘Protecting the Lakes: Aquatic Invasive Species Mapping and Management’

Issue 39 may 2020 ‘A Short Lesson on the Ecology of Two Invasive Plants’

Issue 38 april 2020 ‘Springtime at Parallel 45.9 North’

Issue 37 oct 2019 ‘Shoreline Zoning Changes’

Issue 36 sept 2019 ‘Beauty is Only Surface Deep’

Issue 35 july 2019 ‘Turtle Bellies’

Issue 34 june 2019 ‘Water, and Water Issues, Everywhere’

Issue 33 may 2019 ‘Introducing Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment’

Issue 32 april 2019 ‘FBPEVAWQ’

Issue 31 oct 2018 ‘The Painted turtle: Now we know’

Issue 30 aug 2018 ‘Shouldering public service in the town of Bass Lake: three gentlemen reflect’

Issue 29  july 2018 'It's all about the lakes'

Issue 28  june 2018 'Water quality—pure but not so simple'

Issue 27  may 2018 'How COLA got started—'a bunch of amateur people who cherished the lakes''

Issue 26  feb 2018 'Shining the light on our WDNR partners in Hayward'

Issue 25  dec 2018 'Striking a balance: the dam water’s too high, the dam water’s too low' 

Issue 24  oct 2017 'Manoomin - the "green gold" we love to eat'

Issue 23  sept 2017 'We are all closer because of the lake'

Issue 22  aug 2017 'Lac Courte Oreilles Boat Landings

Issue 21  july 2017 'Broken Arrow Shoreline and Cabins Get Facelift'

Issue 20  june 2017 'COLA named Outstanding Partner in award for protecting Lac Courte Oreilles'

Issue 19  may 2017 'Wanted: Anglers who know how to harvest pike'

Issue 18  april 2017 'Kinnamon School—We just all played together'

Issue 17  feb 2017 'Seining on Lac Courte Oreilles'

Issue 16  dec 2016 'The Land Trust Movement Led by CWRLT'

Issue 15  oct 2016 'And the stars shine brightly on Lac Courte Oreilles’

Issue 14  sept 2016 'Sister Felissa—on Lac Courte Oreilles since 1961'

Issue 13  aug 2016 ‘Death by a thousand cuts,’ Chairman Mic Isham’s focus on water quality, environment'

Issue 12  july 2016 ‘No meatballs in Italy’

Issue 11  june 2016 ‘Keeping Lac Courte Oreilles in balance—Max Wolter knows what to do’

Issue 10  may 2016 ‘Shoreland residential water management 101'

Issue 9  april 2016 ‘Boat ahoy!'

Issue 8  feb 2016 ‘Lac Courte Oreilles - a rare gem'

Issue 7  dec 2015 ‘Until they chip my frozen carcuss out of the snowbank'

Issue 6    oct 2015 ‘The finest of the northwest’—the Old Chicago Club holds her sway 105 years later’

Issue 5 Part 2  sept 2015 ‘They don't call me Frank for nothing’

Issue 5 Part 1  sept 2015 ‘They don't call me Frank for nothing’

Issue 4   aug 2015 ‘Fishing Guide Art Malin and the 'one that got away'

Issue 3  june 2015 ‘COLA takes another giant step in stewardship’

Issue 2  june 2015 ‘Saving the lake’

Issue 1  may 2015 ‘Former restaurants part of lake's legend’