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Activities: Natural Management Overview:
• Biking A network of agricultural ditches runs through the
• Bird Watching middle of the property. Even with the existing ditches,
• Family Gatherings this is a very low-lying park. Found within the Fox
• Fishing River watershed, nearly all of the park is delineated
• Geocaching
• Kayak Lessons wetland. The exceptions are the use areas around the
• Lodge/Picnic Pavilion Rental quarry lake and possibly two old homesteads. The
• Watercraft Rentals rest of the area is comprised of histosols (muck and
• Picnicking peat) where the soil is wet nearly all the time,
• Rollerblading excluding oxygen. The anaerobic processes are not
• Running/Jogging/Walking enough to break down plant material quickly,
• Scuba Diving resulting in organic matter down past four feet in
• Swimming/Lessons some cases. There are three soil islands where the
• Paddle Boarding land is just high enough to form loam. These mounds,
• Cultural Events while still wetlands, support different vegetation and
give the park’s wildlands some diversity.
Events:
• Walk for Thought – Brain Injury
Alliance of WI The Core Zone for Fox Brook Park covers 94.2 acres of
• Bark for Life Dog Walk – American Wet Forest and some Sedge Meadow vegetation.
Cancer Society Invasive species that challenge the management of
• Walk/Roll for SMA – SMA- Kennady’s the Core zone include Reed canary grass, Water cress,
Dream Common buckthorn, and potential for Purple
• Run for Hills – WHMS Wisc. Hills Middle loosestrife. The goal for management is to improve,
School
• Pediatric Stroke Walk/Run and Silent increase, and preserve the quality of the Sedge
Auction Meadow and Wet Forest Edge communities.
• Poker Walk – The Howard Company
• Steps for Stripes Walk – Pulmonary
Hypertension
• Paddlefest – Laacke & Joys
• Huntington Disease Society Run/Walk

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