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Rice Lake Gift Items
Rice Lake, Mead Wildlife Area, Portage County, Wisconsin.
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The Mead Wildlife Area was gifted to the state by Consolidated Water and Paper. Beginning in the early 1960s, state wildlife crews began restoring the area, creating an extensive dike system and numerous flowages across the landscape. Today the Mead has grown to more than 33,000 acres. The property consists of approximately 13,000 acres of wetlands, 14,000 acres of forest, and more than 6,000 acres of grasslands.
As its name suggests, Rice Lake contains a large community of native rice that is actively managed by the DNR for the benefit of wildlife. The ability to manipulate water levels within the area is vital to maintaining or establishing wild rice on the property. Water control structures enable wildlife managers to manipulate water levels to manually create optimal conditions for rice production.
