A Changing Landscape

A Changing Landscape (HM2MBP)

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N 43° 1.762', W 87° 57.56'

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Four miles long and a half-mile wide, the Menomonee River Valley was formed by melting glaciers more than 10,000 years ago. A vast marsh extended from Lake Michigan to where you are now standing. Steep wooded bluffs rose 100 feet above both sides of the Valley.

In its original state, the Valley provided habitat for plants and animals, supplying abundant food for generations. Surrounding wetlands collected rainwater and then slowly released it, providing clean water to springs and seeps along the bluff.

In the mid-1800s, Milwaukeeans filled the marsh with soil, gravel, and industrial and household waste to create dry land. They straightened the river and cut canals to provide shipping routes. Tanneries, lumberyards, stockyards, and other businesses moved into the Valley. These changes provided jobs for thousands of people, but damaged the Valley's natural resources. In the late 1900s, industrial decline left the Valley an isolated and blighted area with contaminated land and abandoned industrial buildings.

Business, neighbors, and community groups are working to once again change the landscape of the Valley by balancing its economy and ecology. The Hank Aaron State Trail is part of this part of this process to return green space to the Valley.

"All the marsh proper...would, in the spring, be literally alive with fish



that came in from the lake... And the number of ducks that covered the marsh was beyond all computation." James Buck, 1830s

Learn more, do more...Get involved with the Friends of the Hank Aaron State Trail.
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HM NumberHM2MBP
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Placed ByWisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc., Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act, Grant #NA03NOS4190106
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Date Added Monday, October 28th, 2019 at 8:01am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16T E 421843 N 4764522
Decimal Degrees43.02936667, -87.95933333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 1.762', W 87° 57.56'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 1' 45.72" N, 87° 57' 33.6" W
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