at the refuge who had worked at Horicon NWR for twenty years. I started out, after getting shown around the office and finding my desk, exploring the refuge by truck with him. We talked about the history of the refuge, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and shared a few good stories.
He explained how the marsh covers about 32,000 acres and is split and managed in the north by the federal Fish and Wildlife service while the south end is managed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Millions of years ago during the waning years of the ice age, receding glaciers, carved out a shallow bed that was able to hold water enough for the marsh to form. Its fascinating evidence that taught scientists much about the ice age. Thousands of years later the refuge was established for the purpose of providing refuge to nesting redhead ducks but has since become a refuge to many other animals specifically many species of migratory bird.
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| Ice Sheet during Pleistocene Era. Image Via UWGB |
