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Presently, the marsh is 32,000 acres (130 km 2) in area, most of it open water and cattail marsh. The southern third, approximately 11,000 acres (45 km 2 ), is owned by the state of Wisconsin and forms the Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area, which was established as a nesting area for waterfowl and resting area for migratory birds .
Fourmile Island is located within Horicon State Wildlife Area which comprises roughly the southern half of Horicon Marsh. The northern portion is managed as the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge. The island supports one of the largest heron and egret rookeries in the Midwest. Oak, basswood, elm, aspen, and cottonwood trees comprise most of the ...
Horicon Bank is a commercial joint bank operating in Wisconsin. It was established in 1896 by Daniel C. Van Brunt, the inventor of the grain drill. His manufacturing company was sold in 1911 to Deere & Company, which continues to operate the factory as John Deere Horicon Works, producing consumer products including lawn tractors.
The new floating boardwalk on Lake Williams in Marlborough will open this spring, Jan. 22, 2024. The floating boardwalk is more than 3,000 feet long and about 8 feet wide, according to City ...
The Horicon Marsh Veteran Hunt is a nonprofit organization founded by Dodge and the late Ryan Voy of Horicon, friends who grew up hunting on the marsh. The idea for the event was born on Memorial ...
A boardwalk (alternatively board walk, boarded path, or promenade) is an elevated footpath, walkway, or causeway typically built with wooden planks, which functions as a type of low water bridge or small viaduct that enables pedestrians to better cross wet, muddy or marshy lands. [1] Such timber trackways have existed since at least Neolithic ...
Devil's Lake State Park is a state park located in the Baraboo Range in eastern Sauk County, just south of Baraboo, Wisconsin.It is around thirty-five miles northwest of Madison, and is on the western edge of the last ice-sheet deposited during the Wisconsin glaciation. [2]
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