A Franksville Wisconsin, medical practitioner, Dr. Steven Armus has guided dermatology clinics that provided care for more than 1.6 million patients over his career in medicine. Conservation focused, Dr. Steven Armus recently launched Native Prairie Restoration, which seeks to control erosion and restore native vegetation to the prairies and ponds of Western Wisconsin.
Encompassing nearly 700,000 acres, Wisconsin’s Western prairie is situated within a larger band of prairie that extends throughout much of Minnesota. The landscape is primarily loamy and has a silt loam surface, which was deposited by glaciers over an extended period. In places, most notably the Apple River Canyon walls, older Cambrian shale, sandstone, and dolomites are exposed.
At present, approximately half of Wisconsin’s native prairie land is used for agriculture and a third is grasslands. The area around the St. Croix River is rapidly suburbanizing, which is impacting prairie land. Agricultural activities, as well as river damming, have altered the landscape dramatically, and the prairie is characterized as fragmented and in need of coordinated rehabilitation.
Encompassing nearly 700,000 acres, Wisconsin’s Western prairie is situated within a larger band of prairie that extends throughout much of Minnesota. The landscape is primarily loamy and has a silt loam surface, which was deposited by glaciers over an extended period. In places, most notably the Apple River Canyon walls, older Cambrian shale, sandstone, and dolomites are exposed.
At present, approximately half of Wisconsin’s native prairie land is used for agriculture and a third is grasslands. The area around the St. Croix River is rapidly suburbanizing, which is impacting prairie land. Agricultural activities, as well as river damming, have altered the landscape dramatically, and the prairie is characterized as fragmented and in need of coordinated rehabilitation.
