Kickapoo River Wildlife Area - Bell Center Unit |
Hours of OperationOpen year round.
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The Kickapoo River Wildlife Area is a 1,550 acre property located within the Lower Kickapoo and Kickapoo Opportunity Area and is of continental significance for its driftless area features. The property is also an important bird area because the forests in the southern portion of this site are among the largest and most intact in the whole driftless area and contain significant populations of forest interior birds such as red-shouldered hawk, Acadian flycatcher, wood thrush, cerulean warbler and Kentucky warbler. Prairie and savanna habitats host Bell's vireo, brown thrasher, blue-winged warbler, field sparrow, bobolink and eastern meadowlark. Thousands of migrants use the area, particularly in spring.
Kickapoo River Wildlife Area - Bell Center Unit (see map) began as a perpetual hunting and fishing easement unit of the lower Wisconsin River Wildlife area in 1968. In 1975 the Kickapoo River Wildlife Area was separated from the lower Wisconsin River project and conversion of easements to fee ownership was begun. Gradually about 1,100 acres have been converted to DNR fee ownership. About 300 acres remain under easement. Many croplands have been converted to upland cover. Hogback Prairie State Natural Area |
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