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Waldvogel's Farm in Juneau, Wisconsin is just about an hour drive from Appleton! There are so many things to see and do, be sure to plan for a whole day!

In those days even the lower elevations blossomed and bloomed with lush profusion. Waist-high tobasa grass used to cover Tornillo Flat—homesteaders harvested and baled it for hay. Today Tornillo Flat is one of the ugliest parts of the park, a barren desert of deep arroyos, dried-up springs, and a few creosote bushes. An army expedition in 1860 reported that the grass along Terlingua Creek was stirrup-high and described the creek as a “bold running stream, studded with cottonwood timber and alive with beaver.” These days, the stream is more timid than bold, and repeated browsing of cattl...

Fire burns more than 850 acres in Big Bend National Park, may have started near popular campsite Chisos Basin is closed due to fire Tags:  Smoke at Boot Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Image: NPS / M. Woolley (National Park Service) A fire at Big Bend National Park that has burned for nearly a week has grown to at least 863 acres. The National Park Service, which oversees the park in Far West Texas, said Monday that much of the fire is located in the “sky island” in the high Chisos Mountains. The blaze has “left a patchy mosaic of scorched, burned, slightly singed, and untouched area...

The fire has burned more than 800 acres in the Chisos Mountains over five days.  Photography by Catherine Wendlandt 4/12/2021 at 4:01pm Smoke in Big Bend National Park's Boot Canyon Updated 10:45 p.m. Apr 14  Although the wildfire at Big Bend National Park has spread to 929 acres, according to the National Parks Service Wednesday morning, about 35 percent of it has been contained. The Carson Hotshots, a firefighting crew from the Carson National Forest in New Mexico, arrived Monday night to help the other crews battling the blaze. The total number of firefighters working in the...

The South Rim Fire has continued to burn through woodlands and grass of the high Chisos Mountains, creating plumes of smoke visible throughout Big Bend National Park.