The Good Food Awards launched four years ago in San Francisco to highlight American craft food and beverage products that are not just tasty, but sustainably and responsibly made. It is an award that quality retailers all over the country look at in order to stock their shelves.

Wisconsin has been doing well at the awards: Death's Door Spirits, Spirit Creek Farm, Quince & Apple, Lakefront Brewery, and Kickapoo Coffee have all taken home medals in the past couple of years. Significantly, Pleasant Ridge Reserve from Upland's Cheese has won every year the awards have been offered, and Underground Meats has now won awards two years in row.

Last year, Underground Meats earned honors for its salami and goat copa. This year, it was its sopressata that caught the judges' eye. "We're building notoriety and getting a name from this second win" says Jerry Traczyk, manager of Underground Meats.

The meat processing wing of the Underground Food Collective has doubled its staff from four to eight employees since last year, and is planning on hiring in anticipation of future demand as the company acquires a license to wholesale across state lines. They plan to have that license in the next few months.

Currently, Underground Meats can only be sold to consumers across state lines -- and do so via Provisions by Food52.

"We're looking at probably doubling the size of our facility in the next few months as well," says Traczyk, who notes that after the Good Food Award wins there is a waiting list of national retail clients.

Nearly 60 restaurants and butcher shops in Wisconsin, as well as nearly 15 retail outlets, currently sell Underground Meats.

The Underground Food Collective also plans to open its new restaurant behind the current Underground Butcher building at 811 Williamson St. The project has been in the works long enough to already have received a liquor license, with construction slated to begin in the next few weeks.

"This project will be very different from Forequarter," says Mel Trudeau, a partner in the business. "It is about twice the size and will take reservations." The restaurant will be called Middlewest, and will serve dinner and brunch. Trudeau expects Middlewest to be open within the year.

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US Door & More Inc. of Tampa, Florida has been selected as the Best of Remodeling company. The 40-year-old US Door & More Inc., a company leading the pack of the worlds renowned manufacturers and distributors of exterior doors, entry and interior doors, French doors and fiberglass doors, was chosen as the winner of this award for the second time in row.

The awards are based on an extensive survey that involves more than sixteen million monthly users who mainly comprise of Houzz community members. A majority of the customers expressed absolute satisfaction and confidence in this company saying they would definitely use their products time and again. US Door & More Inc. won the same award last year during the Houzz Awards 2013 edition.

US Door & More Inc., doorNmore.com, is an international award-winning company that is known for its exemplary and unrivaled designs and quality of its products. The company does not only offer the latest but high quality designs as well. You can follow US Door & More Inc. on Houz.

For the more than 40 years that US Door & More Inc. has been in operation, it has remained true to its motto: Delivering Impressive Design, Quality and Service. That is just one among the many reasons why US Door & More Inc.'s clients from Tampa and beyond have remained loyal to them. This company has, all through these years, managed to maintain high standards thanks to the fact that it employs the best artisans and other professionals that the market offers.

US Door & More Inc. also minds a lot about its customer support services and that is why it has supplied more than 5,000 shopping carts in its website. This goes a long way in improving customer satisfaction which is a determining factor when choosing the winners in Houzz awards.

Houzz provides homeowners with the most comprehensive view of home building, remodeling and design professionals, empowering them to find and hire the right professional to execute their vision, said Liza Hausman, vice president of community for Houzz. Were delighted to recognize US Door & More Inc. among our Best Of professionals for customer satisfaction as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.

Nowadays, homeowners can easily identify not only popular and top rated professionals like US Door & More Inc. but also those companies that match the dreams they have for their homes thanks to Houz. Houzz also gives homeowners a platform to evaluate professionals by contacting them directly. Here, homeowners are given an opportunity to ask questions about the companies work. Answers to such questions are usually available and given in the Houzz community.

Houzz is the world leading platform for remodeling and design. It provides homeowners with everything that they need when improving their homes. That is, from the moment they start to when they finish. Houzz also boasts of the largest residential design database around the globe and a very active community powered by social tools.

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Birds New Zealand endorses the Use of 1080 for Pest Control for Protecting Native Birds

Birds New Zealand President, David Lawrie, said today that his society strongly endorses the decision of the Government announced earlier this week by the Hon. Dr. Nick Smith, Minister of Conservation, for the aerial use of 1080 pesticide in a Battle for Our Birds for the control of animal pests to achieve better protection of our at risk native birds.

Mr. Lawrie said, Members of Birds New Zealand are increasingly concerned at the steady loss of native birds in all natural habitats, especially iconic, rare and endangered species that include kiwi, kakariki, kea, kaka, mohua, whio and kokako. The Battle for Our Birds programme launched by the Minister to save native species is a welcome response to the expected increase in pest animal numbers that will eventually prey on forest birds following exceptionally heavy seeding in beech forests that is predicted to occur this year. Birds living in all natural habitats need protection from rats, stoats and other pests, said Mr. Lawrie, and the problem is expected to be especially urgent in coming months in beech forests where very heavy seeding is expected and will lead to greatly increased populations of pest animals that will prey on birds.

Birds New Zealand accepts the conclusions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment that careful use of 1080 is safe and that its regulated use is the only tool presently available for cost-effective control of pest animals for the protection of birds over large areas of forests. It complements the use of trapping that is widely applied now but the sheer scale of the pest control problem in beech forests in coming months, especially in the South Island, following predicted mass seeding means that carefully targeted aerial spreading of 1080 is the only practical and realistic approach that can be adopted, stated Mr. Lawrie.

He said that several studies have been made on the impacts on native birds since the mid 1990s which have demonstrated that aerial 1080 poisoning of possums and other pests has not markedly affected native bird populations and in all cases is beneficial in the longer term.

Studies of North Island robin and North Island tomtit in Pureora Forest Park in 1997/98 concluded that the breeding success of both species improved dramatically after pests were poisoned by aerially distributed 1080 baits. The use of 1080 baits has also been demonstrated in studies published in 2003 to have markedly improved the survival and nesting success of kereru and kaka in Whirinaki Forest Park, near Rotorua.

In a study made on the critically endangered kakapo, a nocturnal herbivorous parrot, Mr. Lawrie said, The breeding of the kakapo is associated with periodic heavy seeding of several forest trees and other plants, their major plant foods. Protection of kakapo chicks from predation from stoats, rats and possums is therefore critically important when heavy seeding occurs and the careful use of the 1080 pesticide can help achieve this.

Mr. Lawrie also explained, That a major concern of ecologists is that 1080 poison itself, however carefully applied, might be killing some of the native bird and other animal species that it is intended to protect. While there was some evidence of this in the past, the design and application of 1080 has changed immensely in recent years. Mr. Lawrie added, An issue that has been studied in South Island robins by the Zoology Department in the University of Otago was the effect of an aerial 1080 operation to control possums, which are now preceded by non-toxic pre-feeding bait. The results were clear in that adult robins nesting in the study area of the 1080 operation survived. This University of Otago research is continuing to look for other positive effects of 1080 operations on biodiversity.

Mr. Lawrie added that, A conclusion of a study involving the kea, a parrot living only in a few South Island mountains shows that where an aerial application of 1080 was well timed the secondary poisoning of stoats was sufficient to increase kea productivity four-fold over the next two breeding seasons as well as leading to improved survival of birds in all age classes. Populations have been modelled to show that the alternative of no pest control at all would see the likely demise of the kea and that would be very sad loss indeed for such a distinctive and intelligent endemic species.

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Birds New Zealand President, David Lawrie, said today that his society strongly endorses the decision of the Government announced earlier this week by the Hon. Dr. Nick Smith, Minister of Conservation, for the aerial use of 1080 pesticide in a "Battle for Our Birds" for the control of animal pests to achieve better protection of our at risk native birds.

Mr. Lawrie said, "Members of Birds New Zealand are increasingly concerned at the steady loss of native birds in all natural habitats, especially iconic, rare and endangered species that include kiwi, kakariki, kea, kaka, mohua, whio and kokako. The Battle for Our Birds programme launched by the Minister to save native species is a welcome response to the expected increase in pest animal numbers that will eventually prey on forest birds following exceptionally heavy seeding in beech forests that is predicted to occur this year". "Birds living in all natural habitats need protection from rats, stoats and other pests", said Mr. Lawrie, "and the problem is expected to be especially urgent in coming months in beech forests where very heavy seeding is expected and will lead to greatly increased populations of pest animals that will prey on birds".

"Birds New Zealand accepts the conclusions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment that careful use of 1080 is safe and that its regulated use is the only tool presently available for cost-effective control of pest animals for the protection of birds over large areas of forests. It complements the use of trapping that is widely applied now but the sheer scale of the pest control problem in beech forests in coming months, especially in the South Island, following predicted mass seeding means that carefully targeted aerial spreading of 1080 is the only practical and realistic approach that can be adopted", stated Mr. Lawrie.

He said that several studies have been made on the impacts on native birds since the mid 1990s which have demonstrated that aerial 1080 poisoning of possums and other pests has not markedly affected native bird populations and in all cases is beneficial in the longer term.

Studies of North Island robin and North Island tomtit in Pureora Forest Park in 1997/98 concluded that the breeding success of both species improved dramatically after pests were poisoned by aerially distributed 1080 baits. The use of 1080 baits has also been demonstrated in studies published in 2003 to have markedly improved the survival and nesting success of kereru and kaka in Whirinaki Forest Park, near Rotorua.

In a study made on the critically endangered kakapo, a nocturnal herbivorous parrot, Mr. Lawrie said, "The breeding of the kakapo is associated with periodic heavy seeding of several forest trees and other plants, their major plant foods. Protection of kakapo chicks from predation from stoats, rats and possums is therefore critically important when heavy seeding occurs and the careful use of the 1080 pesticide can help achieve this".

Mr. Lawrie also explained, "That a major concern of ecologists is that 1080 poison itself, however carefully applied, might be killing some of the native bird and other animal species that it is intended to protect. While there was some evidence of this in the past, the design and application of 1080 has changed immensely in recent years". Mr. Lawrie added, "An issue that has been studied in South Island robins by the Zoology Department in the University of Otago was the effect of an aerial 1080 operation to control possums, which are now preceded by non-toxic pre-feeding bait. The results were clear in that adult robins nesting in the study area of the 1080 operation survived. This University of Otago research is continuing to look for other positive effects of 1080 operations on biodiversity".

Mr. Lawrie added that, "A conclusion of a study involving the kea, a parrot living only in a few South Island mountains shows that where an aerial application of 1080 was well timed the secondary poisoning of stoats was sufficient to increase kea productivity four-fold over the next two breeding seasons as well as leading to improved survival of birds in all age classes. Populations have been modelled to show that the alternative of no pest control at all would see the likely demise of the kea and that would be very sad loss indeed for such a distinctive and intelligent endemic species".

"A study published in 2012 of 1080 poisoning of possums where the fernbird occurs suggests that impacts of aerial 1080 operations on fernbird numbers are small and the observed impact is outweighed by improved breeding and survival resulting from the reduction of mammalian predators", Mr. Lawrie stated.

Birds New Zealand is the recently adopted popular name for the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. The change has been made in the hope that this will improve the awareness, understanding and relevancy of the society to the general public. The society was formed nearly 75 years ago and aims to foster the study, knowledge and enjoyment of birds. Birds New Zealand is committed to the study of birds and their habitat use within New Zealand through encouraging members and organising various projects and schemes. Activities are organised nationally and amongst 18 regions that provides a local network for members to engage in bird studies. Results of studies are published in the societys scientific journal Notornis whilst general articles and news are published in the magazine Birds New Zealand (formerly Southern Bird). The society has more than 1,100 members in New Zealand and overseas.

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