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The Wisconsin Conservation Congress (WCC) advises the WDNR and Natural Resources Board on managing the state's natural resources. The WCC is composed of citizen-elected delegates including five members of an executive committee, 22 members of a district leadership council, 360 county delegates (five per county), and the general public. [23]
In 1968, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources began buying the properties that would become Harrington Beach State Park. [2] A campground of 73 sites opened in 2009; it was the first new campground at a Wisconsin State Park in over 20 years. [1] Construction began in 2008 and it was completed in the beginning of September 2009. [1]
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.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Two Creeks Buried Forest State Natural Area is a site in the Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program and a unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve . The site lies in the northeast corner of Manitowoc County on the shore of Lake Michigan north of Two Creeks, Wisconsin , USA.
Cranberry Creek Mound Group is owned by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and covers 675 acres (273 ha). The area is heavily forested, containing river birch, silver maple, red maple, jack pine, and oak. It is a State Natural Area since 1986. [6] [8]
The Natural Resources Board has approved a new elk managment plan for Wisconsin. The plan is based on adaptive management principles. Natural Resources Board approves new Wisconsin elk management ...
Mill Bluff State Park is a state park in west-central Wisconsin, United States.It is located in eastern Monroe and western Juneau counties, near the village of Camp Douglas.A unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, the park protects several prominent sandstone bluffs 80 feet (24 m) to 200 feet (61 m) high that formed as sea stacks 12,000 years ago in Glacial Lake Wisconsin.
The smelting house and wooden shaft were rebuilt between 1970 and 1971 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Wisconsin Historical Society. [ 8 ] In 2006 parts of a horror film called Witches' Night were filmed within the state park.