This little quarter mile of the Pecatonica River is wild. It smells like forever, and scrub brush crowds to the edge of the water.
But it’s not wild enough.
The Nature Conservancy, the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association, the state Department of Natural Resources and UW-Madison are partners in a project started last week to restore this bit of river about 30 miles west of Madison within the 50,000 acre Military Ridge Prairie Heritage Area in Dane and Iowa counties to its most natural state.
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