Location: Waupaca County

Area protected: 91 acres

Protection strategy: conservation easement

This property constitutes part of a biological corridor connecting Hartman Creek State Park, Emmons Creek, and Radley Creek, all of which are protected by the Satate of Wisconsin, and also consists of some of the largest parcels of open land remaining in Dayton Township. The property carries a significant historical conservation legacy, having been the farmsted of Helen Browne Hobart, and having been named Outstanding Tree Farm in Wisconsin in 1978. The area consists of Managed Forest land and old fields. Most of the Managed Forest plantations are predominately red pine although there are some white pines as well. Other tree species include cherry, oak and berry brambles that fill the openings left by past logging. The lowlands along the banks of Emmons Creek have speckled alder, northern white cedar and spruce. The fields are dominated by smoothe brome and quackgrass, but along the edges, several individual specimens and clumps of prairie and savanna species were identified.