Location: Marinette County

Area protected: 231 acres

Protection strategy: conservation easement

This conservancy includes 231 acres along Medicine Brook, a high quality trout stream that drains into the Peshtigo River. High banks of cedars, balsam fir and northern pin oaks slope down to the river in the glacial outwash plain.  The land includes aspen, oak, pine and red maple woodlands, 27 acres of cedar and spruce swamp, and over 15 acres of restored prairie.  This conservancy also provides excellent orchid habitat.

Medicine Brook conservancy is a haven for numerous species. These — and dozens of other species — have chosen this as their home:

• lady tresses
• huron green orchid
• small purple fringed orchid
• yellow lady's slipper
• brown trout
• brook trout
• black bear

"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else."
— Hal Boyle