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Healing the land and supporting local habitats

Christmas music is filling the store aisles, and the unmistakable scents of peppermint and clove are everywhere. The first snowfall of the season clings to the windows of a Colectivo coffee house as I sit here typing this. Winter has officially arrived in Milwaukee.

If I’m being honest, I couldn’t even visualize a sturgeon in my head prior to working at the Urban Ecology Center. So, when a coworker mentioned there’d be a sturgeon release at UW-Milwaukee’s Great Lakes Research Facility, I jumped at the chance. It sounded intriguing—plus, I’d never heard of a fish release before. Which got me thinking: What exactly do sturgeons do? What is their backstory? And why do they need releasing in the first place? I quickly realized I didn’t have the faintest idea.