The DNR used to provide a tool on their website known as the SNA Map Viewer. It would provide a simple boundary of each SNA overlayed on a satellite image. Exact GPS coordinates of SNA boundaries, parking areas, or points of interest could be obtained by clicking on the map. When I started my SNA…
SNA Visit Tracking
When you visit many natural places, you need to keep track of them (or at least I do). Here is how I do that presently. This spreadsheet is used to keep tracking of visits, posts to Flickr and this blog, and basic SNA info such as the year a property became an SNA and the…
Birds A to Z: American Bittern
Endeavoring to post photos of from my lifebird list, in alphabetical order… Common Name: American Bittern Scientific Name: Botaurus lentiginosus First Sighting: Spur Lake State Natural Area; Oneida County, WI; 31 Aug 2013 American Bittern, a set on Flickr.
Natural Bridge & Rockshelter, SNA #105 (1/674)
Natural Bridge & Rockshelter was the first SNA I visited and but I did not know much about the SNA program until I returned home later that Memorial Day weekend in 2009. Located in rural Sauk County, the site is relatively easy to find. The SNA is found within the boundaries of Natural Bridge State…
Bakken’s Pond (15/674)
Finding Bakken’s Pond State Natural Area is easy and not so easy at the same time. The open body of water known as Bakken’s Pond as labelled in Google Maps is not within the boundaries of Bakken’s Pond SNA. My interpretation is that Bakken’s Pond is a larger area including the open water of the…
State Natural Areas of Wisconsin 