BOULDER JUNCTION - You could see a few holes in the ice on the frozen lakes without any tip-ups. That's because local researchers want to study the plants under the ice. The question at whether they stay green during the winter sparked a few researchers to drill their way to answers.
"Really, it came down to a curiosity. I was curious whether or not any of our plants that look like they're really green first thing in the spring were green all winter long," explained UW Madison Associate Professor Susan Knight. "I couldn't find anything written about it and I asked a friend of mine Paul Skawinski, who works down in Stevens Point and he didn't know either."
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