Central Wisconsin Public Lands Portfolio

Here are few photos that I took in the past few years in the central Wisconsin public lands.

Wood County Wildlife Area Rainbow

Whitetail Twins - Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

Sandhill Wildlife Area Marsh With Approching

Storm

Buena Vista Grasslands Two Track

Great Blue Heron at Sunset - Wood County Wildlife Area

Fair Weather Approching -  Wood County Wildlife Area

Heavy Storm Clouds - Wood County Wildlife Area

Golden Sunrise - Wood County Wildlife Area

Marsh Sunset - Wood County Wildlife Area

Floating Bog After Heavy Rain - Wood County Wisconsin

Loon and Saddle Mound - Wood County Wildlife Area

Marsh Rainbow - Wood County Wildlife Area

Resting Eagle at Sunrise - Wood County Wildlife Area

Meadow Valley Lilly Pad Marsh - Meadow Valley Wildlife Area

Rising Fog Big Lake - Juneau County Wisconsin

Whitetail and Old Oak - Sandhill Wildlife Area

Winter Oak and Fir Abstract - Wood County Wisconsin

North Storm - Wood County Wildlife Area

Blue Winged Teal Family - Necedah National Wildlife Area

Loons and Cranberry Country - Wood County Wisconsin

Flight to Evenings Roost - Wood County Wildlife Area

Paper Birch Reflections - Wood County Wildlife Area

Day After Roost - Lake Dexter County Park

Twilight Moonset - Lake Dexter County Park

Whitetails and Bear Bluff - Juneau County Wisconsin

Wilson's Snipe - Wood County Wildlife Area

Spring on the Sprauge Mather Flowage - Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

Spring Marsh Sunset - Wood County Wildlife Area

Otters Family on Ice - Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

Late summer in central Wisconsin

The past two weeks of late summer have been very inspirational. Fog, for certain, simplifies compositions by adding a dreamy quality and layered effects to an ordinary landscape. All of the photographs below were taken in the central Wisconsin area. This area is known by locals as cranberry county. The rolling sand flats are boggy and the soil moisture can severely change from week to week. The soils in this area can become very drought stricken or water drenched. Its these rapid fowl changes that make this land unsuitable for normal farming but oddly enough wild cranberry thrive. During 1939 President Roosevelt declared this area as a federal waist land due to these rapid changes in soil moisture. I for one am very happy that this land wasn't developed, though efforts to develop this land were made, they failed. Perhaps one day this waist land can be seen as more than a barren environment but instead a rare wilderness gem of Wisconsin.

Cranberry county loons - Wood/Jackson county line

Great blue heron pearched atop barren branches

Tamarack tops in fog

Partridge pea flowers in foggy meadow

Sandhill crane family in wetlands

Peaceful flowage

Flowage fog

Fog rising over flowage

Foggy flowage sunset

Sunset from flowage shore

Partridge pea in meadow

Meadow and passing rain clouds

Twilight rain in the sand flats

Moods of summer - Sun bursts

Four seasons - Wood and Juneau counties

Four seasons of central Wisconsin in black and white.

Heavy clouds - Wood county wildlife area

Winter in the basin - Wood county wildlife area

Rising fog - Necedah national wildlife refuge

Autumn reflection - Wood county forest

Spring marsh - Wood county wildlife area

Mixed vegetation - Wood county wildlife area

Daisies - Wood county wildlife area