A Wisconsin family tried for years to drain nearly 2,000 floodplain acres for farming; after the effort struggled and a tax fight followed, the land is now permanently protected along 2+ miles of the Sugar River
The nearly 2,000-acre property will become part of the Avon Bottoms Wildlife Area. A Wisconsin family spent years trying to make nearly 2,000 low-lying acres along the Sugar River work as farmland. But the property’s location in a floodplain made farming difficult, and the drainage system could not keep pace with the water.The former Applegate-Bader…