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The Driftless Area, also known as Bluff Country and the Paleozoic Plateau, is a topographical and cultural region in the Midwestern United States [1] that comprises southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and the extreme northwestern corner of Illinois. The Driftless Area is a USDA Level III Ecoregion: Ecoregion 52.
The park is in the Driftless Area, noted for its karst topography, which includes sinkholes and caves.The park is about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Mystery Cave and occupies approximately 3,170 acres (12.8 km 2), with camping, interpretive programs, and hiking, horseback, cross-country skiing trails, cold water streams and excellent trout fishing.
The Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest is a 1,016,204 acres (4,112.43 km 2) reserve of current and former forest in Minnesota's Driftless Area.Only 45,000 acres (180 km 2) of the land is state owned, with the remainder owned by private individuals and community groups, governed by easements.
It will be highly varied over its proposed 110 miles or so, owing to the Driftless Region's geography of bluff-top prairies, steep cliffs, and holler-like woodland areas. Walsh said the existing ...
Jul. 8—ROCHESTER — A proposal to turn a portion of Minnesota's Driftless area into a National Park has been walked back by its designer. Some residents in the Driftless say they're still ...
Southeast Minnesota comprises the corner of the U.S. state of Minnesota south of the Twin Cities metropolitan area extending east, and part of the multi-state area known as the Driftless Area. Rochester is the largest city in the area; other major cities include Winona, Owatonna, Faribault, Northfield, Austin, and Red Wing.
The stream that carved the valley—or "coulee" in the parlance of the Driftless Area—carried sediments down into a small floodplain. Over the centuries the sediments grew deeper while Lake Pepin's water level rose, creating a 4.5-metre deep (15 ft) layer of saturated soil that preserves organic material stretching back 3,500 years.
CHATFIELD, Minn. – Nearly 100 farmers, water advocates, and landowners packed into the top floor of an arts center Wednesday evening in this Driftless region town to hear a presentation and pose ...