[wisb] Re: Harvey & Wangsness ponds
- From: Jesse Ellis <calocitta8@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:46:47 -0500
I know this discussion died down, but as I was mapping the site on Google
for my prior post, I was blown away. Check this out:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=43.291061,-89.29857&spn=0.010792,0.018046&t=h&z=16&msid=114435331364792167189.0004736b8292ac0e5ad63
That darker brown area is probably where the water is standing today. I also
don't see any wetland area east of Kroncke that Peter mentions below.
Google shows the CR on this as 2009, but that's obviously not when the
photos are from.
Just thought I would share. (Also, these maps are quite useful, and easy to
make. Try it.)
Jesse Ellis
Madison
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Peter A. Fissel
<pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Just to be clear, this IS a flooded ag field. In dry years, nearly all
> of it is under cultivation. Even the last two years, it's been
> cultivated up to the edge of the water. I can recall corn coming up to
> the edge of Harvey on the east side north of Wangsness as recently as
> three or four years ago. The 100"+ of snow in the winter of 2007/08,
> followed by record rainfall last summer and record snowfall this past
> December kept water levels much higher than I've ever seen it in the
> last 20 years. It used to be common for there to be a wet area through
> early summer on the east side of Harvey, and occasionally on the west
> side, but it usually was down to just a shallow area of water out in the
> center of the block by mid-summer.
>
> What I'm NOT sure about is the area on the north side of Wangsness Rd.
> east of Kroncke. That had seemed to be a semi-permanent wetland, with
> quite a covering of emergent vegetation. Last month, the farmer
> bulldozed the whole thing out and tore out most of the trees along
> Wangsness Rd., presumably to cultivate it. I don't know if it's the
> same landowner.
>
> Peter Fissel
> Madison, Dane Co.
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