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Apr. 30—EAU CLAIRE — A year ago Wisconsin's fishing season opened at a time of swirling uncertainty regarding the safety of anything other than staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even ...
Putnam Park is a 230-acre (0.93 km 2) state natural area owned by the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. The park is located in the middle of the city of Eau Claire and follows the course of both the Chippewa River to the west and Minnie Creek to the east. Much of the park lies on the boundary of the Third Ward neighborhood.
It is the largest wilderness area in Wisconsin. It is named for Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator and governor of Wisconsin, who was instrumental in establishing the National Trails System, the Wilderness Act, and Earth Day. [16] The National Park Travelers Club held its 2012 convention at the Apostle Islands. [17]
Recreation includes fishing (for musky and walleyed pike), boating and swimming. The county operates two units of its Lake Eau Claire County Park north and south of the lake itself. [3] The dam is one of several in the Eau Claire – Chippewa Falls metropolitan area on the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers. As of 2010 the possibility of developing ...
Diary of Chippewa River Trip in 1868, C. H. Cooke, published in Eau Claire Leader Telegram in 1917. Cooke describes his canoe trip up the river from Eau Claire during the spring log drive of 1868. "Early Lumbering on the Chippewa", Vinette, Bruno, and William W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1926, Wisconsin Historical Society ...
The 39th annual Kids Fishing Clinics will be held Saturday at 10 public sites in Milwaukee and Washington counties. Additional clinics will be held April 20 and June 9 at clubs in Waukesha County.
Dells of the Eau Claire County Park is in the north-central Wisconsin Town of Plover, [1] east of the city of Wausau. It is divided in two by the Eau Claire River . [ 1 ] The river flows through a rocky gorge to form cascades and waterfalls as it passes over and around weathered boulders, outcrops, and other formations.
Brunet Island State Park / ˈ b r uː n eɪ / is a state park of Wisconsin, USA, featuring a 169-acre (68 ha) island in the Chippewa River. The remainder of the park's 1,225 acres (496 ha) are on the east bank of the river. It is noted for its numerous white-tailed deer and large eastern hemlock trees.