Location: Waushara County

Area protected: 103.5 acres

Protection strategy: conservation easement

Protecting the federally and state threatened Karner Blue Butterfly, the landowner has enrolled in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Karner Blue Habitat Restoration Program. The sandy soil is also ideal habit for the two species of cactus that grow within the conservancy and the prairie restoration taking place. A two acre pond and three acres of associated wetlands are included the Mount Morris Conservancy that is located adjacent to two heavily developed inland lakes

Mt. Morris conservancy is home to numerous species. These, and dozens of other species, have chosen this as their home:

• Blanding's turtle - threatened
• bald eagle - federally threatened
• sandhill crane
• red fox
• piliated woodpecker