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For my senior honors thesis, I created a cultural and natural heritage map of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway with my advisor, Bill Gartner. Once complete, this map will be available to community members of the riverway in print and online as downloadable pdfs.
Oct 5, 2022 · But the name covering the area comes from the absence of glacial drift, which the group Driftless Wisconsin describes as the deposits of silt, gravel and rock that glaciers would have left behind had they passed through this part of southwestern Wisconsin.
Lower Wisconsin State Riverway. For thousands of years, long before European explorers and entrepreneurs entered the Lower Wisconsin region, native people recognized the importance of the Mississippi River and its tributaries as a water highway system.
The 92 miles of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway, from Sauk Prairie to the Mississippi River confluence, is one of the most popular flatwater paddling rivers in Wisconsin, next to the St Croix and Namekagon Rivers.
Through time, forces of erosion cut a deep, V-shaped gorge down through the layers. This gorge was the start of the Lower Wisconsin River valley. Four miles wide at Sauk City, the gorge narrows down to 2 miles at Muscoda and only about a mile near Wauzeka.
Oct 16, 2012 · The answer to where does the Wisconsin River start – The Wisconsin River as photographed from the bridge on U.S. Highway 45 in Land O’ Lakes just west of its headwaters. Related: Hiking loops in the Porcupine Mountains State Wilderness Area.
The Lower Wisconsin is the longest free-flowing stretch of river in the Midwest. This 45,000-acre property extends along 92 miles of the river from Prairie du Sac to the confluence with the Mississippi River.
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