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Horicon Marsh was created by the Green Bay lobe of the Wisconsin glaciation during the Pleistocene era. The glacier, during its advance, created many drumlins (a glacial landform) in the region, many of which have become the islands of Horicon Marsh.
Allen L. Cook Spring Creek Preserve is a 4,700-acre (19 km 2) nature reserve considered to be one of the richest cache of undisturbed dinosaur fossils in North America It is located near the village of Rock River, Wyoming some 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Laramie .
It passed through Fond du Lac, connecting the forts in Wisconsin and Fort Dearborn in Illinois. [12] The first school in Fond du Lac was built in 1843. The first railroad came to the community in 1852. About 1856, the first English-language newspaper in Fond du Lac, the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, was founded. Logging and milling were primary ...
In 1988, Dallas County and the State of Texas purchased 69 acres (28 ha) of the land to set aside as the Spring Creek Forest Preserve. The land was given to Garland for maintenance. Since 1987, the City of Garland and the Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest are responsible for maintaining the nature trails within the Preserve. [1] [2 ...
Mission Creek was named for an Ojibwe mission located here in the 1830s. The American Fur Company post was purchased by the Missouri Fur Company in 1842 and continued operating until 1848. The 1826 and 1847 Treaties of Fond du Lac were signed at Fond du Lac. A village was platted in 1856 and incorporated in 1857.
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SNA Logo Sign. The Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program is a conservation program created to highlight and protect areas with outstanding natural or archaeological resources in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
A view of a water filled low spot at Willow Creek Preserve, Friday, December 8, 2023, in Sheboygan, Wis. Glacial Lakes Conservancy is looking into water quality testing and recent grant to build ...