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Green Bay/Fox Cities Region August 2011
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Hidden Gems in Wisconsin
A Look at Wisconsin’s Community Zoo’s
Part 1 of 6 Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary by Rick Barton, Pet Journal Staff Writer rbarton@petjournalmidwest.com
Editors Note: This series is a look at the community zoo’s in Wisconsin, of which there are six located in the following communities: Baraboo, Chippewa Falls, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Marshfield, and Oshkosh. This is the first of several series highlighting our zoos both public and private, as well as a number of the state managed wildlife areas. The Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary is 75 years old this year and is celebrating this monumental event with “Soaring Forward with the Wildlife Sanctuary”. During its existence, it has enriched people’s lives by offering them education and a close-up, hands on experience like none other. It has fostered an appreciation of the world around us by giving us a glimpse of nature not found inside many urban areas.
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Behold the Power of Cheese!
K&R Animal Sanctuary
The Blessing of a Dachshound on Wheels
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Eco News: Aliens in Wisconsin
When it’s Time, You will Know
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Diatomaceous Earth for Natural Flea Control
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Work began in earnest in the fall of 1935 when Chester, his father C.F. Cole, Kyle Kingston, and Judge Henry Grass
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It was 1935 when Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary began with the most humble of beginnings. Work on the area actually began 6 years earlier when the City of Green Bay purchased 200 plus acres for the development of a golf course and lagoon. Fortunately for us, these plans never came to fruition. The sanctuary concept began when a local biology teacher, Chester Cole, saw a need for a protected area where water fowl could nest and breed. He brought together other local conservationists and in 1935 was granted permission from the City Park Board to develop an experimental area which became Bay Beach Marsh. Mr. Cole envisioned this as a wildlife sanctuary which would attract both waterfowl and other wildlife.
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