Project Map Funded in late 2019, this project is the sister project to RGS/AWS/DNR’s 2019 McMillan Wildlife Areas project. In the Spring of 2021, a total of 11 acres of large, overly mature alder was sheared by a contractor off of Rangeline Road to provide excellent habitat for woodcock, grouse and other young forest dependent wildlife for many years to come. Due to the ease of accessibility off the road and location to multiple communities, this area is also a popular spot used by many types of hunters.
Background The Mead Wildlife Area is approximately 32,000 acres of heavily hunted public land with a wide array of habitat types, located in three counties in central Wisconsin. Grouse and woodcock are a highly sought-after game species on the property. Mead staff are currently conducting a property wide recon of all non-forested (non-timber) lands. Property recon will be loaded into the Wisconsin Forest Inventory and Reporting System (WisFIRS), the same system used by the Forestry Division to track forest management and timber sales. WisFIRS will better allow staff to plan and track alder management on the Mead Wildlife Area into the future and better schedule regular habitat management treatments like those RGS/AWS helped complete.
