When you think of the benefits of living up north, do you include tall trees and clear water? The Masked Biologist does, and that is the topic of this week’s Wildlife Matters . When my wife and I decided to move our young family from the wide-open prairie to Wisconsin’s great Northwoods, we would always tell people it was for “tall trees and clear water.” If you have never driven through the prairie pothole region, it is basically square mile after square mile of row crops, with a smattering of