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Caring & Sharing: Wildwoods Rehabilitation: caring for wildlife and the humans who care, too

©Lisa Johnson

In a sense, Wildwoods Rehabilitation spends more time caring for humans than they do caring for orphaned and injured wildlife.

Especially in the spring and summer, more than half their phone conversations are providing information and assistance to people who want to know if the fawn has been abandoned, are the baby rabbits ok and what should I do with the owl I just found alongside the road.

"There's been a huge shift (in public attitude)," says Tara Smith.  "This is why we live here."

This interview originally aired on December 7, 2017

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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