Devil's Lake's landscape is filled with remnants of human history at the park. These remnants can be read like a history book, with each page revealing a different era. From ancient effigy mounds sculpted by Native peoples thousands of years…
Opinion - As the world changes, each new generation tends to accept their environment as normal. Science calls this "Shifting Baseline Syndrome". It's why you might not know what you've lost if you weren't around to see it go. Take…
About 200 people attended the first of 2 performances of the Native Arts and Culture of Teewakącąk at Devil's Lake State Park last Friday. The next performance, along with the Native Art Market Place, will be held on August 18th.…
If you set up a time machine at Devil's Lake State Park and traveled backwards over the last 150 years, you'd witness a fascinating transformation. A Journey Through Time As the years flew by in reverse, you'd see land clearing,…
I've been thinking about how much 2024 is feeling like the infamous drought year, 2012 so far. But I also know that we humans have a way of connecting dots in ways that are not always factual. So, I decided…
What are some of the common myths or misunderstandings you've heard about Devil's Lake State Park? There are quite a few! One that came up recently is the idea that Devil's Lake has some form of NATURAL underwater drainage. So,…
We all know that planting trees benefits our environment...usually. Looking back, Wisconsin was the nation's top timber producer between 1890-1899. By the 1920s, logging had decimated Wisconsin’s seemingly endless forests. Reforestation efforts ramped up in the 1930s and 40s. In…
From today, going back far into the haze of time, the Ho-Chunk people lived on this land. Just 200 years ago, around 1823, Devil’s Lake, or “Tee Wakącąk”, was still a sacred space known only to the Ho-Chunk people. We…
With the "Effigy Mounds: Sacred Sites and Native Arts" program coming up tomorrow, Thursday, August 10, from 2 pm to 4 pm at Devil's Lake State Park, I thought I'd try to wrangle out a timeline that might help "time-confused"…
Throughout Devil’s Lake State Park, you can find long linear mounds of rock so old that large trees now grow right through and on top of the rocks. These stone rows offer us a snapshot of the hardships early farmer’s…