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The city's 37 city parks, which total 337 acres (136 ha), [42] are maintained by the Wausau and Marathon County Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Department. Oak Island Community Park and Fern Island Community Park are located next to each other on the Wisconsin River.
Wisconsin currently has 51 state park units, covering more than 60,570 acres (245.1 km 2) in state parks and state recreation areas. Each unit was created by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature and is maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation.
The Wausau Kiwanis Club recognized the mountain's recreational potential. The club bought 120 acres of land at the top in 1922 and 40 more acres years later. The club asked the Wisconsin Conservation Department (predecessor of the DNR) if Rib Mountain could become a state park and the department accepted a gift of 40 acres in 1923 with official ...
Wausau has one of the most extensive PFAS contaminations in the state, with contamination in all of its drinking water wells. The city is working to install a granulated carbon filtration system, ...
In 1923 the Marathon County Park Commission bought 60 acres (24 ha) around the dells of the Eau Claire, establishing its fourth county park. Charles Ramsdell, a landscape architect from Minneapolis, planned the initial development of the park, which included trails, a picnic grove, and a concession stand, keeping in mind the County Park Commission's directive to not "replace the natural and ...
Garrett Jones, director of Spokane’s Parks and Recreation Department, asked the board to postpone the February vote until either August or November 2025. Doing so would allow the city to ...
They are managed for outdoor recreation, watershed and habitat preservation, and sustainable forestry. The various units total 471,329 acres (1,907 km 2), although many contain extensive private inholdings. Wisconsin's state forests are often co-listed with Wisconsin's state park system, which is maintained by the Division of Parks and Recreation.
“The Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Division plans and directs activities to protect, manage, conserve, and wisely use Wisconsin’s lands, plants, wildlife, fisheries and recreation resources”. Though monitoring and establishing objectives about the wildlife populations, the division is able to gain a better understanding of the population ...