Over 12,000 years ago, the area was bypassed by glaciers during the Ice Age, resulting in a beautiful landscape of waterfalls, bluffs, caves, rare geology, and wildlife.

This is known as the Driftless Area, and most of it resides in southwestern Wisconsin, a rural region that begins approximately 120 miles west of Milwaukee, where handmade signs advertise direct ...

Fort McCoy is part of the Driftless Area, also called the Paleozoic Plateau, which escaped glaciation in the last Ice Age, some 11,700-plus years ago. Combine the location with archaeological work ...

Hidden In Iowa's Incredible Driftless Area Is A State Forest ... because it was skipped over by glacial deposits that flattened the majority of the surrounding landscapes during the ice age.

The glaciers of the last ice age spared this region, and thus spared it the drift - the silt, the boulders, the assorted debris - common throughout much of the northern hemisphere.

With idea to establish a national park in the Driftless area of Southeast Minnesota set ... The species are holdovers from pre-ice age populations surviving next to cold air flows called algific ...

For La Crescent biologist George Howe, the only way to share the beauty of the unique Driftless Area was put it on video. In order to do that, Howe teamed up with Tim Jacobson to produce ...

In fact, the Driftless Area has already done that through multiple ice ages. ... Be extra cautious if venturing out on early ice. Dec 15 · By Nancy Vogt. News.