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The Ridges Sanctuary
Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin
Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The county planned a trailer park and picnic ground on a series of old beach ridges that hold twenty-five native orchid species. Emma Toft and a group of botanists fought it and won, creating Wisconsin's first private natural area. Each ridge is a former shoreline of the lake, so walking inland from the water is walking back through about a thousand years of plant succession.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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