The new Milwaukee Public Museum, renamed the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin, reached a construction milestone with the ...

As the great ice sheet of the Wisconsin Glaciation retreated, meltwater formed a huge lake that covered much of what is now Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Red River Valley region. Lake Agassiz ...

Wisconsin's landscape was heavily shaped by continental glaciation. The most recent period of the Ice Age came around 10,000 years ago, and it was known as the Wisconsin Glaciation.

FARGO — As the great ice sheet of the Wisconsin Glaciation began to melt some 13,000 years ago, Lake Agassiz formed over what is now Saskatchewan, Man., eastern North Dakota and northwestern ...

Wisconsin is well-known for its glacial landforms, created when glaciers spread across the state over the course of 20,000 years — from about 32,000 to about 12,000 years ago, Schaefer said.

The drumlin islands, a series of elongated hills formed by glacial debris, were created more than 20,000 years ago during the Wisconsin Glaciation.

According to Rutherford, a warmer period after the Wisconsin Glaciation Episode about 4,000 to 6,000 years ago allowed warmer-adapted species to colonize farther north than normal.