Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area
I’ve been photographing in the Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area near Grantsburg, Wisconsin since 2015. In 2019, I officially declared this to be a project. At first, it was to photograph Crex Meadows for only the winter of 2019-20. When that winter ended, I kept the project going. Now I have to do something with the project’s results. First, I’ve compiled this video of the best photos from Crex plus a couple from the Fish Lake State Wildlife Area. The Fish Lake area along with Crex and the Amsterdam Sloughs State Wildlife Area are managed as a single unit.
Crex is flat and wet, with mostly marshes, shallow lakes, and ponds. There are no distinctive landscape features except a couple of long, low ridges that I think are eskers. The only sloping road in the whole area goes up one of these ridges. Wouldn’t you know, I managed to get stuck in the snow on that insignificant slope? I had to call 911 to get someone to drag me out.
The area is most active during fall migration when it fills up with sandhill cranes, trumpeter swans, geese, many varieties of ducks, loons, grebes, herons, egrets, songbirds, etc.
Photographs of the Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area near Gransburg, Wisconsin
Stuck On Crex Ridge Road