{"id":475,"date":"2019-09-02T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:14:30","slug":"lower-wolf-river-bottoms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/lower-wolf-river-bottoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Wolf River Bottoms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This site encompasses the final approximately 100 miles of the Wolf River below the Shawano dam as it flows south to Lake Poygan.\u00a0 Numerous state properties are located within this IBA, including state wildlife areas, state natural areas, and fishery areas.\u00a0 It is a vast area of open and forested wetlands, sometimes occurring in extensive tracts, both along the Wolf and its major tributaries (the Embarrass, Shioc, Little Wolf, Waupaca, and Rat rivers).\u00a0 The floodplain forests here are the largest and most intact in all of eastern Wisconsin.\u00a0 Also found here are emergent and submergent marsh, sedge meadow, shrub swamp, hardwood swamp, aspen, and some wetland communities more characteristic of northern Wisconsin such as tamarack swamps and open bogs.\u00a0 There also are smaller areas of restored prairie and surrogate grasslands and patches of upland forests composed of oaks, maples, basswood, beech, and sometimes hemlock or white pine.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This IBA provides breeding habitat for many priority species, including red-shouldered hawk, northern harrier, least and American bitterns, yellow-crowned night-heron, Virginia rail, black tern, black-billed cuckoo, yellow-billed cuckoo, willow flycatcher, least flycatcher, wood thrush, prothonotary warbler, cerulean warbler, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, vesper sparrow, dickcissel, bobolink, and eastern meadowlark.\u00a0 Tens of thousands of tundra swans, Canada geese, and waterfowl and 20 species of shorebirds use the wetlands and flooded fields during migration.\u00a0 Forster\u2019s terns from the colony at Lake Poygan forage here, and short-eared owls have been recorded in winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Lower Wolf River Bottoms, photo by Eric Epstein<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This site encompasses the final approximately 100 miles of the Wolf River below the Shawano dam as it flows south to Lake Poygan.\u00a0 Numerous state properties are located within this IBA, including state wildlife areas, state natural areas, and fishery areas.\u00a0 It is a vast area of open and forested wetlands, sometimes occurring… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}