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Protected LandHall IV Emmons Creek Hobart Farms (Waupaca County)    February 5, 2012
Protected Land: Hall IV Emmons Creek Hobart Farms (Waupaca County)
 

Location: Waupaca County

Area protected: 75 acres

Protection strategy: conservation easement

This property is the fourth and final addition to our Emmons Creek Conservancy bringing the total of protected acres to 286. This conservancy contains shorline of Long Lake that is the longest section of natural and undeveloped shoreline on the Chain O' Lakes, and is valuable spawning habitat for northern pike. The jewels of this property are the many wetlands aiging in the preservation of Emmons Creek and Emmons Lake. Other than red pine plantings and old fields, most of the land is forested deciduous with a fair amount of alder thickets in the lower areas. Wildlife includes deer, pileated woodpeckers, bluejays, crow, chickadees, sandhill cranes, turkeys, and red-tailed hawks.

 
 
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