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La Crosse FRO, Necedah NWR,and Upper Mississippi NWR - La Crosse District Team Up to Sample Beaver Creek on Necedah NWR
Midwest Region, July 31, 2007
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Bill Peterson and YCC Crew from Necedah NWR electrofish in Beaver Creek on July 31. - FWS photo
Bill Peterson and YCC Crew from Necedah NWR electrofish in Beaver Creek on July 31.

- FWS photo

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Bill Peterson, a biologist from Necedah NWR, is currently working on restoring Beaver Creek, one of the many channelized streams, to its original streambed.  With the help of the Army Corps of Engineers, portions of Beaver creek will once again flow in its historical bed. 

 

Because the Refuge is interested in how this change will affect the fish population in Beaver Creek, Heidi Keuler and Mark Steingraeber from La Crosse FRO, Kara Zwickey and the YCC crew from the La Crosse District of the Upper Miss Refuge, and the YCC crew from Necedah, were called to help sample fish populations in Beaver Creek on July 31-Aug 1st. 

 

Over 100 fish were sampled with electrofishing gear, hoop, and fyke nets.  Species of fish included bowfin, central mudminnow, northern pike, common shiner, sand shiner, black bullhead, yellow bullhead, tadpole madtom, largemouth bass, green sunfish, bluegill, orange spotted sunfish, yellow perch, and johnny darter.  These same stretches of Beaver Creek will be sampled a year or two after completion of the project which is aimed for this next year. 

 

The Necedah NWR, Wisconsin contains many small streams and wetlands that provide habitat for not only fish, but also for migratory birds.  Because of this habitat, Europeans settled the area in the early 1700’s with logging as their primary income. 

 

In an attempt to farm the area in the late 1800’s, settlers had created ditches and channelized streams to drain the wetlands and remove water from the land faster.  However, in the 1930’s farms were abandoned because of the short growing season, poor soil conditions, maintenance of the ditch system, and intense fires.  Because of this economic disaster, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Necedah NWR in 1939 “as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.” 

 

Necedah is a Ho-Chunk word meaning “land of yellow waters.” 

Contact Info: Midwest Region Public Affairs, 612-713-5313, charles_traxler@fws.gov



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