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The Northwoods are the boreal forest of North America, covering about half of Canada and parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. [1] For the part within the borders of the Midwestern United States, see North Woods. The Boreal forest and its alpine cousins are host to a wide variety of deer, ranging ...
The Northern Highland is a geographical region in the north central United States covering much of the northern territory of the state of Wisconsin. The region stretches from the state border with Minnesota in the west to the Michigan border in the east, and from Douglas and Bayfield Counties in the north to Wood and Portage Counties in the ...
A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...
October 10, 2024 at 7:17 AM. Several northern Wisconsin locations are reporting peak fall color conditions as of Oct. 10, according to the Fall Color Report posted by Travel Wisconsin. Observers ...
Physical Geography. Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [ 1 ][ 2 ] Western Upland. Eastern Ridges and Lowlands. Central Plain. Northern Highland. Lake Superior Lowland. Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.
The Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ w ɑː m ɪ ɡ ən ˌ n ɪ k ə ˈ l eɪ /; the q is silent) [3] is a 1,530,647-acre (6,194.31 km 2) U.S. National Forest in northern Wisconsin in the United States. Due to logging in the early part of the 20th century, very little old growth forest remains.
Eau Claire (/ oʊˈklɛər / oh-KLAIR; [ 9 ]French: [o klɛʁ] lit. "clear water") is a city in Eau Claire and Chippewa counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the seat of Eau Claire County. [ 10 ] It had a population of 69,421 in 2020, [ 4 ] making it the state's eighth-most populous city. It is the principal city of the Eau Claire ...
Wisconsin county code 15 FIPS county code 55029. Door County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,066. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Sturgeon Bay. [ 3 ] It is named after the strait between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island.