I drove to Colorado recently.Northern Wisconsin was frozen and snow covered when I left. Vehicles were parked on lakes where people were ice fishing. People think of Wisconsin as wall-to-wall dairy farms, but the reality is far different. The northern half of the state is heavily wooded and includes one of the highest concentrations of freshwater lakes in the world.In winter, we don’t see bare ground at the top of the state for many months. The snowpack lessened, however, as I made my way south, crossing the Wisconsin River eight times. Forests gave way to farm country, flat ground to
