[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Badger Ammo Plant (WI) natural history

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Restored Badger Ammo site could someday be boon for naturalists

Anita Weier
Capital Times (WI)
August 5, 2008

Standing on a bluff at the northern edge of the vast Badger Army 
Ammunition Plant, you can see land swept flat by ancient glaciers, 
"driftless" areas missed by the ice and remnants of prairie, oak savanna 
and thick woods.

"It's a beautiful view from the bluff," said Craig Karr of the 
Department of Natural Resources.

"The geologists are very excited about this being a public property," 
added Karr, who will oversee public input when some of this area is 
eventually transferred from the Army to the DNR. "It is unique. It shows 
the ancient sea beds, the glaciation, the terminal moraine."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/299453

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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