
The Wetland Gems® of Northeast Wisconsin
Explore the map below to learn more about the twelve Wetland Gems® sites in the Northeast Region of Wisconsin.
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Black Ash Swamp
County: Kewaunee/Door
Property Owners: multiple private landowners
Black Ash Swamp spans the border of Door and Kewaunee Counties five miles inland from the Lake Michigan coast. The site is one of several large inland swamps dominated by black ash and red maple in the southern part of the Door Peninsula. These wetlands are important for their role in supporting area streams with clean and abundant water, including Silver Creek, a tributary to the Ahnapee River. The site is also important as one of few remaining large, diverse lowland forests in this region and provides habitat for species representative of the state’s northern and southern parts. Black ash, white cedar, and paper birch dominate in the northern part of the swamp while red maple, silver maple, green ash, and black ash dominate in the south. Pockets of cedar and tamarack stands and other areas dominated by silver maple provide added diversity. The ground layer is relatively open in most parts of the swamp, though the small yellow lady’s slipper, a species of special concern in Wisconsin, is abundant. Roadside birding efforts have documented broad-winged hawks, pileated woodpecker, winter wren, brown creeper, red-breasted nuthatch, Canada warbler, and other locally uncommon species. More scientific surveys will likely uncover more rare and special species.
This site is not open for public access.
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Brazeau Swamp
County: Oconto
Property Owners: USDA Forest Service, Wisconsin DNR
Brazeau Swamp, one of the largest wetland complexes in the state at more than 10,000 acres, is composed largely of wooded wetlands including both coniferous swamp and lowland hardwood swamp. The site also hosts an extensive alder thicket and high-quality sedge meadow. Peshtigo Brook drains this vast swamp, which is located within the basin of glacial Lake Oconto. While some of this wetland complex is on private lands, Brazeau Swamp comprises large areas of protected lands in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and the Peshtigo Brook State Wildlife Area. The western section of Brazeau Swamp includes Waupee Lake State Natural Area, a small and unspoiled lake surrounded by extensive coniferous swamp and lowland hardwood swamp. Because of calcareous groundwater inputs, Waupee Lake’s margins support an unusually high number of rare plant species. Peshtigo Brook Meadows & Woods State Natural Area features a series of sedge meadows that are highly intact. Dominant plants include lake sedges, tussock sedges, and woolly fruit sedges. Shrub species include bog birch, alder, white meadowsweet, and slender willow. Bird species that use Brazeau Swamp for breeding habitat include black-billed cuckoo, alder flycatcher, brown thrasher, mourning warbler, Olive-sided flycatcher, sedge wren, Nashville warbler, veery, and sandhill crane. Rare and interesting bird species documented at the site include merlin, warbling vireo, and yellow-bellied flycatcher. Amphibians found in the Swamp include leopard frog, wood frog, green frog, and bullfrog. Numerous dragonflies also make use of these extensive wetlands.
For information about how to access the site, visit the Peshtigo Brook Meadow and Woods and Waupee Lake Swamp pages of the State Natural Areas Program website.
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Hortonville Bog
County: Outagamie
Property Owner: Wisconsin DNR
Hortonville Bog is one of the highest quality bogs in southern Wisconsin. The open bog habitat at this site is high quality and is also especially extensive for this region. This Wetland Gem® is located in west-central Outagamie County and is about 640 acres in size. At the center of the site is an acidic open bog with a deep sphagnum moss layer. There is no open water, but the ground is very spongy and hummocky. The open bog in the center of the site has a dense layer of sphagnum moss with herbaceous plants like tussock cottongrass and few-seeded sedge. The ring of the coniferous bog has a sparse canopy of black spruce and tamarack with a sub-canopy of black spruce, tamarack, and some white pine. The bog hosts several species of birds characteristic of northern bog communities including winter wren, Canada warbler, Nashville warbler, white-throated sparrow, sharp-shinned hawk, northern waterthrush, and Lincoln’s sparrow. Two rare butterflies, two-spotted skipper, and broad-winged skipper are known in this area and likely use the site’s wetland habitats. White-tailed deer are common here.
For information about how to access this site, visit the Hortonville Bog page of the State Natural Areas Program website .
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Kangaroo Lake
County: Door
Property Owners: The Nature Conservancy, Door County Land Trust
Kangaroo Lake, the largest lake on the Door peninsula, is a shallow lake fed by Piel Creek, which flows in on the north end of the lake. Piel Creek’s headwaters begin in unusual spring-fed calcareous fen habitat several miles upstream of the lake. The southern end of Kangaroo Lake is highly developed and receives heavy recreational use. A causeway built in the late 1800s separates the northern end, which has remained undeveloped in part because of the extensive wetlands there. Lowland hardwood and coniferous swamp surround the northern shoreline of the lake and the corridor of Piel Creek. Common trees in this swamp include white cedar, black ash, tamarack, black spruce, and balsam fir. Characteristic shrubs include speckled alder, willows, and meadowsweet and common understory herbs include three-leaved goldthread, dewberry, naked miterwort, and American starflower. A shallow marsh area in the northernmost part of the lake features emergent and floating-leaved plants including bulrushes, wild rice, and bullhead lily. Marsh habitat provides breeding habitat for Virginia and sora rails and sandhill cranes as well as migratory and nesting habitat for many species of waterfowl. Numerous rare and endangered species use wetlands at Kangaroo Lake including Ohio goldenrod, Dorcas copper butterfly, bald eagle, and osprey.
These wetlands are best accessed and enjoyed by canoe. For information about how to access this site, visit the Kangaroo Lake page of the State Natural Areas Program website .
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Kohler Andrae Dunes
County: Sheboygan
Property Owner: Wisconsin DNR
This Wetland Gem® site includes the Kohler Park Dunes State Natural Area located within Kohler-Andrae State Park. The site is significant because it protects an excellent example of interdunal wetland habitats unique to the Great Lakes region. Kohler Andrae Dunes is particularly important because it comprises the largest dune complex along Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan shoreline, including more than one mile of Lake Michigan beach. The unique interdunal wetlands at Kohler Andrae Dunes provide habitat for many rare plants, some of which are endemic to Great Lakes shorelines. Sand dunes at the site are separated by low, wet swales. These interdunal wetlands are thickly vegetated with lakeshore rush and sedges and some rare plants including slender bog arrowgrass. A variety of plants grow on the dunes and stabilize the sand, including sand reed, marram grass, Canada wild rye, northern wheatgrass, common and trailing junipers, sand cherry, and willow species. The dunes also support many rare plant species. More than 150 bird species are known to use the Kohler Andrae area. During the fall and spring, the area is frequented by a diverse collection of migratory birds, including many species of waterfowl and shorebirds and more than 20 species of warblers. Duck species that stopover at Kohler Andrae include American black duck, northern shoveler, canvasback, greater scaup, lesser scaup, bufflehead, and red-breasted merganser. Shorebirds that use the site as stopover habitat include greater yellowlegs, lesser yellowlegs, ruddy turnstone, and dunlin. Many birds also live and nest in wetland habitats of this site, including great blue and green herons. A rare tiger moth has also been documented at the site.
A trail with an extensive “cord walk” provides access to the sensitive interdunal wetlands at this site. For information about how to access this site, visit the Kohler Park Dunes page of the State Natural Areas Program website .
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Mink River Estuary
County: Door
Property Owner: The Nature Conservancy
Mink River Estuary, located in northeastern Door County near the town of Ellison Bay, is considered by many to be the most intact and least disturbed coastal wetland site in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan. Headwaters of the Mink River form from alkaline springs and seasonally flooded hardwood swamps, and the river flows through the coniferous swamp for a short distance until it enters a large marsh and ultimately empties into Lake Michigan at Rowley’s Bay. The Mink River Estuary is a dynamic system formed by the mixing and flushing of Lake Michigan and Mink River waters. The changing lake levels help to create and maintain the diversity of habitats by alternately exposing mud flats and flooding large areas of vegetation. Wetland communities, and associated vegetation, in the estuary vary with water depth. Water lilies and water milfoil inhabit the deepest marsh areas while other deep areas are dominated by bulrushes. Wild rice, cattails, and common bur-reed dominate intermediate depths of the marsh and shallower areas host sedge meadow habitat with blue joint grass and various sedges. Several rare plant species are found here. Many mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates inhabit the estuary and take advantage of changing conditions within the estuary. More than 200 bird species use the estuary as stopover habitat during spring and fall migration each year, including a wide variety of ducks, herons, gulls, bitterns, cormorants, and loons. Mammals using the site include coyotes, porcupines, and other species associated with northern hardwood and conifer swamps. Various Lake Michigan fish species use the estuary during different seasons, including steelhead, brown trout, bass, and northern pike. The Mink River Estuary is part of the Door Peninsula Coastal Wetland complex that was designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 2014.
These wetlands are best accessed and enjoyed by canoe. For information about how to access this site, visit the Mink River Estuary page of the State Natural Areas Program website and the Mink River Estuary page of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin's website .
Learn more about the international significance of this site on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands website .
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Miscauno Cedar Swamp
County: Marinette
Property Owner: Wisconsin DNR
Miscauno Cedar Swamp features an extensive, high-quality coniferous swamp over dense sphagnum peat located in steep moraine topography in the northeasternmost part of Wisconsin. These wetlands are situated on steep hillslopes along the South Branch of Miscauno Creek, a coldwater trout stream. Calcareous groundwater seepages along these swampy hillslopes create pockets of standing water and headwater springs that feed the creek. The canopy of these swamps is dominated by white cedar and black spruce with additions of black ash and elm trees along the stream. Underneath the canopies are balsam fir saplings and sparse shrubs including alder, alder-leaf buckthorn, and Hudson Bay currant. Dense sphagnum mosses and peat underlie these swamps. Tamarack snags suggest the site once supported a tamarack-dominated swamp before logging. The southeast corner of this site is mostly alder thicket. While these wooded wetlands are second growth, several rare plants have been documented at this site and the habitat type and quality suggest that it has the potential to support several others. Breeding bird surveys have documented uncommon birds such as ravens, hermit thrush, black-and-white warbler, pine warbler, scarlet tanager, and black-billed cuckoo during the nesting season.
For information about how to access this site, visit the Miscauno Cedar Swamp page of the State Natural Areas Program website .
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Moonlight Bay & Connected Wetlands
County: Door
Property Owners: WDNR, Ridges Sanctuary, The Nature Conservancy, Door County, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Property Owners: WDNR, Ridges Sanctuary, The Nature Conservancy, Door County, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
This Wetland Gem® site encompasses a corridor of highly significant wetland complexes that nearly span the Door Peninsula. This site includes Ephraim Swamp, Baileys Harbor Swamp, Ridges Sanctuary State Natural Area, Toft Point State Natural Area, and Mud Lake State Natural Area. From the extensive forested wetlands of Ephraim and Baileys Harbor Swamps that form an important ecological corridor across the peninsula to the ridge and swale topography on a series of former Lake Michigan beach ridges at Ridges Sanctuary, these wetlands are extremely diverse and ecologically valuable. Ephraim Swamp and Baileys Harbor Swamp are dominated by maple, ash, and cedar. Mud Lake, a shallow lake with a truly wild character, is surrounded by extensive shrub and coniferous swamp habitat of white cedar, white spruce, balsam fir, and black ash. The climate along the Lake Michigan shore is moderated by the lake, allowing more northern species to thrive at the shoreline areas of this site. Ridges Sanctuary, alone boasting nearly 500 plant species, comprises many former beach ridges separated by wet swales that are characterized by rich marsh, bog, and coniferous swamp habitat. Many rare plant species grow at this site. This Wetland Gem® also hosts a diversity of animals, particularly migratory birds. Bird species recorded at the site include osprey, bald eagle, great blue heron, green heron, marsh wren, sedge wren, swamp sparrow, yellow-bellied flycatcher, blue-headed vireo, common tern, pied-billed grebe, mallard, ring-necked duck, northern pintail, blue-winged teal, Virginia rail and at least 17 species of warblers. Herptiles of the site include a green frog, a northern leopard frog, and a painted turtle. A variety of fish uses deepwater marsh areas along the shores of Moonlight Bay for spawning habitat. Fish noted at the site include yellow bullhead, northern pike, smallmouth bass, and rainbow smelt. This site also supports two rare land snails. Moonlight Bay & Connected Wetlands is part of the Door Peninsula Coastal Wetland complex that was designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 2014.
The Ridges Sanctuary offers several hiking trails, visit the website to learn more. For information about how to access this site, visit the Baileys Harbor Boreal Forest and Wetlands , Ridges Sanctuary , Toft Point , and Mud Lake pages of the State Natural Areas Program website.
Learn more about the international significance of this site on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands website .
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North Bay
County: Door
Property Owner: The Nature Conservancy, Door County Land Trust
This Wetland Gem® is a very large site encompassing approximately 4,700 acres and a significant stretch of undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline (8500 feet). North Bay supports several high-quality coastal wetland communities that are dynamic and change in response to the interaction of the rise and fall of groundwater and Lake Michigan water levels. A number of springs and spring runs originate within the more inland coniferous swamp habitats of the site. Three Springs Creek, the site’s major spring-fed creek, flows through the center of the site and into Lake Michigan through a large marsh at the north end of the bay. Because of North Bay’s high-quality coastal wetlands, this site comprises one of the most ecologically valuable stretches of the Great Lakes shoreline. The north end of the bay features a large emergent marsh dominated by soft stem bulrush, hardstem bulrush, wire rush, cattail, and blue joint grass. Other wetland communities near the water’s edge include sedge meadow and a large calcareous fen. The site also contains a complex of Lake Michigan dunes and associated ridge and swale topography which features wetlands unique to this region. Wetlands of the site support a number of rare and threatened plants species. North Bay provides critical habitat for a wide diversity of migratory and nesting waterfowl species including bufflehead, redhead, hooded mergansers, and northern pintail. This site is one of the few known nesting sites in Wisconsin for the common goldeneye. Six species of rare birds use this area for nesting and foraging including bald eagle and osprey. A variety of shorebirds are also known to use the area. This site supports rare butterflies and dragonflies. North Bay is an important spawning area for a large portion of Lake Michigan’s whitefish population. The Bay’s outlet streams also provide important habitat for many other game fish species including northern pike, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, trout, and chinook salmon. North Bay is part of the Door Peninsula Coastal Wetlands complex that was designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 2014.
For information about how to access this site, visit the North Bay page of the State Natural Areas Program website or the North Bay-Mud Lake page of The Nature Conservancy's website .
Learn more about the international significance of this site on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands website .
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Peshtigo River Delta
County: Marinette
Property Owner: Wisconsin DNR
This Wetland Gem® comprises a very large coastal wetland complex along the northwest shore of Green Bay three miles southeast of the city of Peshtigo. The wetland complex extends upstream along the Peshtigo River for two miles from its mouth. This site is significant because of its size, the diversity of wetland community types present, and the overall good condition of the vegetation. The complexity of the site—including abandoned oxbow lakes and a series of sloughs and lagoons within the river delta—offers excellent habitat for waterfowl. The area supports a variety of recreational uses, such as hunting, fishing, trapping, and boating. The Peshtigo River Delta has been described as the most diverse and least disturbed wetland complex on the west shore of Green Bay. The lower Peshtigo River forms an extensive delta that hosts a diversity of wetland community types—marsh, sedge meadow, shrub carr, floodplain forest, and lowland hardwood forest—as well as a variety of interesting habitat features such as abandoned oxbow lakes, beach, sand bar, and channels within the river delta. Wetlands of the Peshtigo River Delta support several rare plant species. This Wetland Gem® provides extensive, diverse, and high-quality wetland habitat for many species of waterfowl, herons, gulls, terns, and shorebirds and is an important staging, nesting, and stopover site for many migratory birds. Several rare and interesting bird species have been documented at the site, including bald eagle and osprey. Rare reptiles and amphibians documented at the site include bullfrogs.
For information about how to access this site, visit the Peshtigo Harbor Lacustrine Forest and Peshtigo River Delta Marshes pages of the State Natural Areas Program website.
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Point Beach & Dunes
County: Manitowoc
Property Owners: Wisconsin DNR, Woodland Dunes Nature Center
This Wetland Gem® is an important coastal wetland complex near the city of Two Rivers that comprises Point Beach State Forest and three separate State Natural Areas: Point Beach Ridges, Nippising Swamp, and Woodland Dunes. This Wetland Gem® offers excellent examples of ridge and swale habitat, a Great Lakes coastal wetland type characterized by dry ridges separated by wet swales paralleling the Lake Michigan shoreline. These ridges are remnants of former beach lines that formed as water levels fell during post-glacial times. Ridges at this site vary from upland forest types to coniferous swamps of yellow birch, beech, and hemlock with understory plants like shining club-moss, spinulose wood fern, American starflower, naked miterwort, and yellow-blue bead lily. The swales at Wilderness Ridge State Natural Area feature diverse sedge meadows containing more than 28 species of sedges and many species of grasses. Molash Creek flows southward out of this disturbed swamp and then eastward to Lake Michigan through higher quality alder thicket and southern sedge meadow. Several rare plants have been documented at this Wetland Gem®, which also provides important nesting and migratory stopover habitat for a variety of birds. Large numbers of ducks, loons, and grebes gather in lake waters adjacent to this site, especially in the fall. Tens of thousands of land birds and raptors use the area during both spring and fall migration. Songbirds, especially warblers and thrushes, make use of the forested portions of the site during migration. Bird species that breed at the site include eastern wood pewee, wood thrush, hooded warbler, ovenbird, American redstart, Blackburnian warbler, and Canada warbler. Rare and unusual bird species have been documented at this site, including common barn owl.
For information about how to access this site, visit the Point Beach Ridges , Nippising Swamp , and Woodland Dunes pages on the State Natural Areas Program website.
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Rushes Lake
County: Menominee
Property Owner: Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Located in eastern Menominee County/Reservation, this Wetland Gem® harbors what is considered to be one of the most ecologically diverse forested wetland complexes in Northeast Wisconsin. The site features a complex of nearly 750 wetland acres associated with Rushes Lake, Jackson Creek, Long Marsh, and an unnamed lake adjoining Rushes Lake. Rushes Lake is made up of a shallow, soft-water lake surrounded by a vast complex of coniferous bog, open bog, and other northern wetland plant communities. Large adjacent areas of upland forest increase the wildlife value of these wetlands, which are home to a number of rare plant and animal species. The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin considers this site special because of the types of wetlands and diversity of plants and animals. Rushes Lake is a popular destination for tribal hunting and wildlife watching. It is surrounded by a wide, open bog mat of sphagnum moss, sedges, rushes, and low shrubs. The mat’s soils are peaty and hummocky, providing conditions that support an unusual diversity of plant species. Several mammal species make use of Rushes Lake wetlands, including snowshoe hare, mink, fisher, muskrat, beaver, black bear, and deer. Bird species found at the site include robin, white-throated sparrow, Nashville warbler, common yellowthroat, mallard, blue-winged teal, American black duck, and cedar waxwing. Game species include the ruffed grouse and eastern wild turkey. The site also supports several rare and interesting bird species, including common loon, and has been home to a pair of bald eagles for more than twenty years. Amphibians are numerous and include bullfrog, chorus frog, leopard frog, spring peeper, and eastern gray tree frog. Snakes include garter, eastern hognose, and pine.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has deemed this area private and not open to the public.
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Shivering Sands & Connected Wetlands
County: Door
Property Owners: Wisconsin DNR, Door County Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy
This Wetland Gem®, located north of Sturgeon Bay along the eastern coast of Door County, comprises several smaller sites including Shivering Sands, Whitefish Dunes, and Kellner’s Fen. The Shivering Sands wetland complex is exceptional both because of its large size and natural community diversity. Complex hydrologic patterns, evident from the numerous springs that originate from the dolomite bedrock contribute to vegetation diversity. Whitefish Dunes is a State Natural Area located within Whitefish Dunes State Park that features excellent examples of various coastal communities, coniferous swamps, and sedge meadows. Kellner’s Fen is a large embayment wetland complex that is unique in part because historical dune formation isolated it from Lake Michigan. The diverse coastal wetlands of this Wetland Gem® site support a great diversity of rare species. The Shivering Sands wetland complex includes three undeveloped lakes with large lake-edge fen habitats surrounded by extensive coniferous swamps. These fen communities support such rare species as tussock bulrush and the state threatened coast sedge. Rare plants include northern bog sedge, tussock bulrush, and common bog arrowgrass. This Wetland Gem® supports an impressive variety of mammals including black bears, snowshoe hare,s and porcupines. This site also provides breeding habitat for many bird species and receives very heavy use as a stopover site during migration. More than 110 species of breeding birds have been documented at Shivering Sands alone. Birds include black-throated blue warbler, black-throated green warbler, Blackburnian warbler, Canada warbler, northern waterthrush, red-eyed vireo, veery, American redstart, eastern wood-pewee, Cooper’s hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, and sandhill crane. The site also provides critical habitat for numerous other rare animals including oithona tiger moth and Midwest Pleistocene vertigo.
For information about how to access this site, visit the Cave Point-Clay Banks and Whitefish Dunes pages of the State Natural Areas Program website or the Shivering Sands page on The Nature Conservancy's website .
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West Shore Green Bay Wetlands
County: Oconto/Brown
Property Owner: Wisconsin DNR
This Wetland Gem®, located north of Sturgeon Bay along the eastern coast of Door County, comprises several smaller sites including Shivering Sands, Whitefish Dunes, and Kellner’s Fen. The Shivering Sands wetland complex is exceptional both because of its large size and natural community diversity. Complex hydrologic patterns, evident from the numerous springs that originate from the dolomite bedrock, contribute to vegetation diversity. The complex includes three undeveloped lakes with large lake-edge fen habitats surrounded by extensive coniferous swamps, habitats that support many rare species. Whitefish Dunes is located within Whitefish Dunes State Park that features excellent examples of various coastal communities, coniferous swamps, and sedge meadows. Kellner’s Fen is a large embayment wetland complex that is unique in part because historical dune formation isolated it from Lake Michigan. The diverse coastal wetlands of this Wetland Gem® site support a great diversity of rare species. This Wetland Gem® supports an impressive variety of mammals including black bears, snowshoe hare,s and porcupines. This site also provides breeding habitat for many bird species and receives very heavy use as a stopover site during migration. More than 110 species of breeding birds have been documented at Shivering Sands alone. Birds include black-throated blue warbler, black-throated green warbler, Blackburnian warbler, Canada warbler, northern waterthrush, red-eyed vireo, veery, American redstart, eastern wood-pewee, Cooper’s hawk, goshawk, sharp-shinned hawk, black tern, and sandhill crane. The site also provides critical habitat for rare animals including a state endangered snail.
For information about how to access this site, visit the West Shore Green Bay Wetlands State Wildlife Area page on the Wisconsin DNR’s website.
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Wolf River Bottoms
County: Oconto/Brown
Property Owner: Wisconsin DNR
This Wetland Gem® features one of the last large, continuous, and intact floodplain corridors in the Midwest. The state owns approximately 30,000 acres of the river corridor and associated wetlands in the Lower Wolf River watershed that are protected and managed through a suite of State Wildlife Areas, Fisheries Areas, and Natural Areas. Here the Wolf River meanders through extensive and high-quality floodplain forests and open wetlands. The topography of the forest floor is complex and uneven in spots due to past flooding and associated erosion and deposition. This Wetland Gem® includes significant stands of mature floodplain forest, some of which have old-growth characteristics. More than 40% of all the state’s native plant species are found in the Wolf River Bottoms and approximately 60% of the state’s breeding bird species nest here. Several rare plants are present at this site. Spring flooding of backwater sloughs and other floodplain habitats provides critical spawning habitat for many fish species, including walleye, lake sturgeon, northern pike, bass, and perch. Many mammals use the site, including white-tailed deer, snowshoe hare, beaver, mink, muskrat, otter, red fox, bear, coyote, skunk, woodchuck, badger, and bobcat. Characteristic birds of the site include American redstart, pileated woodpecker, barred owl, wood duck, American woodcock, bald eagle, osprey, sandhill crane, and herons. Several rare species of fish, mussels, and invertebrates have been documented at this site. In addition to its ecological value, the Wolf River Bottoms provides many excellent recreational opportunities including fishing, hunting, wildlife watching, and boating.
For information about how to access this site, visit the Wolf River Bottoms page on the State Natural Areas Program website .