WI State Symbols – Wildlife Animal INACCESIBLE LbNA #44948 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Wisconsin Hiker  |
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| Plant date: | Nov 30, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Waupaca |
| County: | Waupaca |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Gram Judy |
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| Last found: | Aug 18, 2010 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | May 16, 2016 |
Last found/checked: 2-SEP-13 Box is now inaccessible due to a tall deer fence around the area. Funny that a carved deer is now trapped INSIDE the area they are trying to keep deer out of!
Location: A state park located west of Waupaca. Take State Highway 54 west to namtraH Creek Road (1 mile west of Hwy Q). Head south to enter the park.
Hiking Distance / Time Estimate: ~ 1 mile / 45-60 minutes
Terrain: Grass & dirt trails with some small hills
Note: A valid Wisconsin State Park vehicle admission sticker is required and may be purchased at the park. In 2009 the daily rate is $7 for WI residents or $10 for non-residents. Annual state park stickers are $25/$35.
Wisconsin designated the white-tailed deer as the state wildlife animal in 1957. An animal of incredible beauty and power, white-tailed deer are able to run up to 40 miles per hour, jump 9 foot fences, and swim 13 miles per hour. The white underside of the deer's tail waves when running and is flashed as a warning when danger is sensed. Both native Americans and settlers relied on the white-tailed deer for buckskin and food.
We planted this box during the season when the state wildlife animal is the prize still sought by many hunters. Be sure to wear blaze orange if you are on the "hunt” during the same season (generally late November) since hunting IS allowed in the park. Another interesting side note – our youngest nephew (age 12) got his first deer hunting the same week we planted this box.
Follow the park road in to the nellA Lake Picnic Area. Take the paved path to the bubbler, then bound off on dirt to cross between the water. Deer prefer to live near forests and agricultural areas, such as crop fields, because these areas provide food and cover for them. However they seem to be almost EVERYWHERE in the state, including large numbers of them in our suburban yard near Milwaukee, eating up everything they can!
Ignore side trails, then meander left at the “T”. The white-tailed deer is an herbivore—it eats plants. Deer graze on tree leaves, broadleaved herbs, and berries in the summer and acorns, grass, and herbs during the fall. During the winter, deer munch on white cedar, twigs, nuts, fruits, and corn and in the spring deer eat grass, wheat, and alfalfa. Deer have a four-chambered stomach that allows them to digest these plant foods. They gobble up their food quickly and hardly even chew. Later as they are resting, they cough up their food and re-chew it (so much for table manners!).
At the next map post, take a left, then perhaps follow some deer tracks straight through the next intersection. You’re on the trail of a male deer. Bucks are easy to identify in the summer and fall because they grow a set of antlers (also called a rack) each year. The rack is made of bone and has points, called tines. Many tines on a buck's rack indicate that the deer is healthy and lives in a good habitat. A buck's antlers reach full growth in the fall. You may see a buck rubbing his antlers on a tree in early fall to get rid of the soft velvet that protected his new antlers. As the buck rubs off the velvet, the antlers will become ivory-colored at the tips. In the winter, bucks shed their antlers. We once found some antlers laying in our back yard!
From the first post with brown, green & blue, take 30 steps at 20 degrees. The buck with a nice rack is bedded down in the “V” of the fallen tree. [MAYBE... it looks like a lot of cutting & clearing took place before they put up the deer fence.] Please be sure he is safely settled back in his home before you leave him.
To return to your starting point, backtrack on the trail until you reach the twin (now cut down) and triplet (2 of 3 cut down) on your right. (We see twin fawns in our yard almost every spring.) Take the trail at 190 degrees. Past the bike, take a right. Then a last left at a “T” and you’re back at the lot.
Since we don’t live in the area, status reports would be greatly appreciated!
Hike length: 1 mile
Location: A state park located west of Waupaca. Take State Highway 54 west to namtraH Creek Road (1 mile west of Hwy Q). Head south to enter the park.
Hiking Distance / Time Estimate: ~ 1 mile / 45-60 minutes
Terrain: Grass & dirt trails with some small hills
Note: A valid Wisconsin State Park vehicle admission sticker is required and may be purchased at the park. In 2009 the daily rate is $7 for WI residents or $10 for non-residents. Annual state park stickers are $25/$35.
Wisconsin designated the white-tailed deer as the state wildlife animal in 1957. An animal of incredible beauty and power, white-tailed deer are able to run up to 40 miles per hour, jump 9 foot fences, and swim 13 miles per hour. The white underside of the deer's tail waves when running and is flashed as a warning when danger is sensed. Both native Americans and settlers relied on the white-tailed deer for buckskin and food.
We planted this box during the season when the state wildlife animal is the prize still sought by many hunters. Be sure to wear blaze orange if you are on the "hunt” during the same season (generally late November) since hunting IS allowed in the park. Another interesting side note – our youngest nephew (age 12) got his first deer hunting the same week we planted this box.
Follow the park road in to the nellA Lake Picnic Area. Take the paved path to the bubbler, then bound off on dirt to cross between the water. Deer prefer to live near forests and agricultural areas, such as crop fields, because these areas provide food and cover for them. However they seem to be almost EVERYWHERE in the state, including large numbers of them in our suburban yard near Milwaukee, eating up everything they can!
Ignore side trails, then meander left at the “T”. The white-tailed deer is an herbivore—it eats plants. Deer graze on tree leaves, broadleaved herbs, and berries in the summer and acorns, grass, and herbs during the fall. During the winter, deer munch on white cedar, twigs, nuts, fruits, and corn and in the spring deer eat grass, wheat, and alfalfa. Deer have a four-chambered stomach that allows them to digest these plant foods. They gobble up their food quickly and hardly even chew. Later as they are resting, they cough up their food and re-chew it (so much for table manners!).
At the next map post, take a left, then perhaps follow some deer tracks straight through the next intersection. You’re on the trail of a male deer. Bucks are easy to identify in the summer and fall because they grow a set of antlers (also called a rack) each year. The rack is made of bone and has points, called tines. Many tines on a buck's rack indicate that the deer is healthy and lives in a good habitat. A buck's antlers reach full growth in the fall. You may see a buck rubbing his antlers on a tree in early fall to get rid of the soft velvet that protected his new antlers. As the buck rubs off the velvet, the antlers will become ivory-colored at the tips. In the winter, bucks shed their antlers. We once found some antlers laying in our back yard!
From the first post with brown, green & blue, take 30 steps at 20 degrees. The buck with a nice rack is bedded down in the “V” of the fallen tree. [MAYBE... it looks like a lot of cutting & clearing took place before they put up the deer fence.] Please be sure he is safely settled back in his home before you leave him.
To return to your starting point, backtrack on the trail until you reach the twin (now cut down) and triplet (2 of 3 cut down) on your right. (We see twin fawns in our yard almost every spring.) Take the trail at 190 degrees. Past the bike, take a right. Then a last left at a “T” and you’re back at the lot.
Since we don’t live in the area, status reports would be greatly appreciated!
Hike length: 1 mile