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Whitefish Dunes State Park Nature Center: Sturgeon Bay: Door: Lake Michigan: 865 acres, exhibits about the ecology, geology and cultural history of the park Wildwood Wildlife Park: Minocqua: Oneida: Lake Superior Northwoods: Zoo and nature center with over 750 animals [39] Willow River State Park: Hudson: St. Croix: Mississippi/Chippewa Rivers
Contains 28 effigy mounds in excellent states of preservation, walking trails and interpretive signage. Originally established as a State Park in 1950, it was taken over by Washington County in 1986. It was deeded back to the state in 2021 and redesignated a State Park in 2022. Menominee River State Park and Recreation Area: Marinette: 6,563 ...
Willow River State Park is a 2,891-acre (1,170 ha) Wisconsin state park located five miles (8 km) north of Hudson. The centerpiece of the park is Willow Falls, a powerful cascade in a 200-foot (61 m) deep gorge. Another popular feature is Little Falls Lake, a shallow reservoir on the Willow River. Because of its proximity to Minneapolis-St ...
The Octagon House Museum, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1855. St. Croix County Courthouse. Several Native American burial mounds dated to the Middle or Late Woodland period have been found in what is now Birkmose Park in Hudson. [3]
Cirsium pitcheri, sometimes called Pitcher's thistle or dune thistle, is a species of thistle native to sand dune shorelines along the upper Great Lakes. It is native to Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ontario. [3] It is listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a threatened species. [4]
Nepenthes attenboroughii (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ æ t ən ˈ b ʌr i aɪ,-ˌ æ t ən b ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ i aɪ /), or Attenborough's pitcher plant, [3] is a montane species of carnivorous pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is named after the celebrated broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, [4] [5] who is a keen enthusiast ...
Saracenia oreophila takes its name from the mountainous regions where it grows. The generic name Sarracenia is from Michel Sarrazin [1659–1734], a French-Canadian naturalist who first described a specimen of the genus, and oreophila literally means "mountain-loving," from Greek oreophilos (oros, -eos, "mountain," + philos, "loving").
Pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria. A: Honey-glands from attractive surface of lid. B: Digestive fluid from interior of pitcher, in pocket-like depression of epidermis, opening downwards. C: Transverse section of the same. Scanning electron micrograph inner surface of pitcher plant Pitcher plants growing in a bog in Pennsylvania