© Photographed June 13, 2015
Erected 1947 by Wisconsin Society of Ornithology
Wyalusing State Park
Erected 1947 by Wisconsin Society of Ornithology
Wyalusing State Park
Bagley, Grant County, Wisconsin
42.991818,-91.124511 (approximate location)
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Dedicated to the last Wisconsin Passenger Pigeon shot at Babcock, Sept. 1899. This species became extinct through the avarice and the thoughtlessness of man.
The marker is located deep inside Wyalusing State Park, at the Sentinel Ridge Trail overlook, adjacent to the Green Cloud Picnic Area, and is accessible from Long Valley Road, .5 miles west of its intersection with State Park Lane. The park entrance is located at 13081 State Park Lane, Bagley, Wisconsin 53801.
NOTE: The marker is located inside a Wisconsin State Park; an annual sticker or daily-use fee is required to enter.
Project Passenger Pigeon: Lessons from the Past for a Sustainable Future
Wikipedia: Passenger Pigeon
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Wyalusing State Park passenger pigeon monument to be rededicated May 17 [2014]
Wisconsin State Park System: Wyalusing State Park
Project Passenger Pigeon: Lessons from the Past for a Sustainable Future
Wikipedia: Passenger Pigeon
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Wyalusing State Park passenger pigeon monument to be rededicated May 17 [2014]
Wisconsin State Park System: Wyalusing State Park
Map of Wyalusing State Park
(See below for map details of marker location.)
(See below for map details of marker location.)
We meet here to commemorate the death of a species. This monument symbolizes our sorrow. We grieve because no living man will see again the onrushing phalanx of victorious birds, sweeping a path for spring across the March skies, chasing the defeated winter from all the woods and prairies of Wisconsin.
Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a few decades hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know.
-- Also Leopold, 1947
The path on the left is about 100 yards
from the Green Cloud Picnic Area parking lot.
Red arrow -- Green Cloud Picnic Area (park here)
Green arrow -- Passenger Pigeon Monument
Blue arrow -- Sentinel Ridge Trail and Indian Mounds
The marker is located at Wyalusing State Park.
Wyalusing State Park is located in Bagley, Wisconsin.
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