The natural Lulu Lake State is home to some of the world’s ecosystems. Southeast Wisconsin is part of the important landscape in the southern boilers. Funding from the Wissonsin Outdoors Fund and other NRF grants protected Lulu Lake for several years.
Lulu Lake State. Photo by Joshua Mayer
A home to one of the rarest ecosystems in the world
Luke Lake State is located directly outside Milwoki outside Milwoki (SNA). The site features a varied mix of wetlands and highlands that are formed by old icebergs. The swamp mosaics, Fens, and SEDGE are provided, and the promoter here is an essential habitat for many types of plants and wildlife.
Lake Lulu is widely recognized for its environmental importance. It is part of the Kettle Moraine State – Southern Unit, and it is an important landscape worldwide. Also, he was appointed as the jewel of wetlands in Wisconsin and an opportunity to preserve the Weslevin Wildlife Action Plan. Lulu Lake, which extends to 1,800 acres, extends by the Ministry of Natural Resources in Wisconsin (DNR) and Nature Conservance. It has been protected as SNA since 1977.
Member 2024 diversity in conservation training in a lake Lake with NATURE CONSERVANCY. Photography by Lindsey Taylor
Lulu Lake, which bears the same name in the region, is a quiet kettle lake with an area of 95 acres with an area of 95 acres, which is known by ice rivers-quietly as a region that does not obey. Miahi is very diverse Miahi the Moukonago River on the lake. Its clear waters provide habitats for many rare fish, amphibians, reptiles and bird types. The lake and the surrounding landscapes are a shelter of natural societies that have almost disappeared from the southeast of the Wisconsin state, including the globally sofa oak savanna.
Oak opening in the natural area of Lulu Lake State. Photography by Lindsey Taylor
Before European colonialism, Wisconsin was home to more than 5.5 million acres of oak-sofa-based facts of facts characterized by a 10 % umbrella cover to 60 %. Today, there are still only about 500 acres, with 50 to 90 of those valuable acres in Lake Lulu. The Wisconsin Natural Resources Corporation (NRF) is proud to partner with other organizations to restore and preserve this historical scene for future generations.
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In 2021, NRF’s Wissonsin Outdoors Fund supported the Lulu Lake Savanna Project in DNR. This project improves communication across more than 200 acres of LULU using the following restoration technologies:
– Restore agricultural fields to the wilderness
– Diversify the promoter through Interseed (Entering the types of wilds into the current vegetation to support the growth of the original plant)
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-Burning a 100 acres whose area
– Control of gas species such as Buckthorn, Honeysockle, Knapweed, Japanese parsley, and Japanese parsley
The objectives of this project are to link the habitats of herbal, barrier and savanna lands, enhance habitats for pollinations, birds and other wildlife, and improve access to fishermen, fishermen, birds and hikers.
In 2022, DNR began converting 22 acres of agriculture into a varied meadow that communicates with the pollinators. Thanks to Fund Fund, the crew used local seeds and collected with a pulling pulled behind the seeds and his hand. This recovered meadow will serve as an original habitator between two fixed areas of the pollinators. In addition, it will serve as a barrier for historical water resources and savanna. The barrier will increase the distance between Lake Lulu and active agriculture from 500 feet to about a quarter of miles.
Bags of the seeds of the local genetic pattern of agriculture 22 acres. The image with the permission of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Management
Throughout 2023, the crew removed gas wooden plants in the areas of savanna and oak. In addition, it was stored in low diversity farms and old field areas. In 2024, the crew continued to control wood and herbal conquests. Next, the crew conducted a specific burning, and continued to grow maintenance.
A person behind the seeds of clouds to collect local seeds for agriculture and lower diversity in the old fields and old fields. Photo by Wisconsin Natural Resources Department
Promoting habitats for critical herbal bird species
As one of our SNAS priority, NRF continues to support DNR restoration work in Lake Lulu. In 2023, with the support of many NRF grants, 17 acres of forests were cut. This helped control the gas brush and improve herbal lands. During the 2024 growth season, the crew applied selective herbal pesticides on an area of 35 acres to provide long -term control over the gas brush. Then eight acres of cutting the forests will occur in addition to removing any unwanted trees very large on the cutting of the forests.
Before (left) and after (right) of the herbal land structure after cutting the forests to make room for local species. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Natural Resources Management
Bird surveys and habitats evaluation revealed that some areas were very inflated with the brush to support rare birds in the neighboring fields. These restoration efforts have helped restore herbal lands in Lulu, making the area more suitable for herbal lands, which is the group of birds hanging in Wisconsin. Lake Lulu is home to about 350 acres of open lands such as old fields and the original meadows needed by many herbal lands for habitats. Birds that use the eastern site Meadlaork, Henslow’s Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Northern Harrier, Horned Lark, Dickcissel, Cuckoos and other types that need to be kept.
East Marj sits on a high branch. Photography by Lindsay Broadheed
What is the expression box?
Dear Wisconsin Outdoors Fund is a partnership between the public and private sectors between the Wisconsin Natural Resources Corporation and Wisconsin Natural Resources Department. This fund was established in 2012, and helps to create permanent support for the care and management of lands and water that hikers, birds, fishermen, and fishermen alike loved.
This endowment provides a permanent source of financing for Wisconsin General Lands for future generations. The box improves habitats for Wisconsin animals and animals. Moreover, it is an opportunity for citizens to invest in public lands and water they are re -created. The Edrish box was built through voluntary contributions from citizens when they buy fishing and fishing licenses or when they donate directly to the box.
The Diversity Group 2024 has traveled in the field of conservation to the natural Luke state to explore the habitats of southern boilers. Photography by Lindsey Taylor
By donating the Wisconsin box in the open air, you help secure the future for land and public water in Wisconsin. Your support guarantees that future generations have the opportunity to hunt, fish, bicycles, birds, and enjoy Wissonsin 1.5 million acres of land and public water.
Written by Emma Shatz, digital communications coordinator