Location: Marquette County

Area protected: 199 acres

Protection strategy: conservation easement

This conservancy is bordered on two sides by state public lands and is part of Crystal Lake Barrens. It also includes 3,300 feet along the Mecan River, a Class 1 trout stream that drains into the Fox River. The landowners are actively maintaining and improving the Mecan River's world famous trout habitat in this environmentally sensitive area.

 

“The good life on any river may…depend on the perception of its music, and the preservation of some music to perceive."
-Aldo Leopold