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Activities: Natural Management Overview:
• Ag Land Rental Minooka Park is right on the border of Wisconsin’s
• Archery
• Bicycling tension zone and at the edge of savanna country. The
• Bird Watching presence of mature Red Oaks (estimated around 100
• Cross-country Skiing years old) tells us these areas were likely dry-mesic
• Day Camp forest instead of savanna. The fen ground layer covers
• Dog Exercise about an acre and the rest is disturbed. There is one
• Family Gatherings section of forest, between the fen and the original
• Fishing woods, that is part of the Core Zone to buffer from the
• Geocaching
• Hiking northwestern subdivision and connect the fen. This
• Horseback Riding 16.8-acre section was disturbed and treeless 70 years
• Mountain Biking ago.
• Nature-based Educational Programs
• Picnicking The Core Zone for the park covers 189 acres of mostly
• Rugby dry-mesic and mesic forest, with a small amount of
• Running/Jogging/Walking
• Sledding moist woods, and a tiny, degraded fen. Invasive
• Snowshoeing species that challenge the management of the Core
• Swimming Zone include Garlic mustard, Japanese barberry, Reed
canary grass, Autumn olive and the Gypsy moth.
Events: While not currently found in the park, the potential for
• Fat Bike Race – Wheel & Sprocket invasives such as Purple loosestrife and Glossy
• JanBoree Run/Ski/Bike Race – Silver
Circle buckthorn exists. The goal for management is to
• Salsa Cycles Demo – Wheel & Sprocket maintain and improve the ecological quality with
• Sunny Day 5K – Waukesha South H.S. selective control of the invasive species. Monitoring
• WORS Colectivo Bean Classic Bike the area for new invasive species and new populations
Race of existing invasives is critical to the health of the Core
• Badgerland Striders Fun Run and Corn Zones. The quality of the vegetation in this park is
Roast
• Metro Wednesday Night Racing – good enough that management here is more feasible
Wheel & Sprocket than most areas.
• AIDS Ride WIS Cycling Event – ARCW
• Trail Assail 5K/10K Series
• Friendship 5K Run/Walk – School
District of New Berlin

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