Milwaukee Audubon Indian Prairie update at Kletzsch Park

Milwaukee Audubon Indian Prairie update at Kletzsch Park

Ron Preston photographing a student looking across the Milwaukee River to the east-bank green lawn where the Kletzsch Park Dam fish passage will now be built. The thunderbird has landed on the concrete of the west bank where the original spring flow still emerges from an outflow pipe near his right foot. Building the fish passage on the east bank will spare the legacy oaks of Indian Prairie’s anthropogenic savanna and may allow MMSD to daylight Indian Prairie’s original canoe landing to the right of this photo.

Prairie Seeding Honors Ancestors at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

Prairie Seeding Honors Ancestors at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

In January Milwaukee Audubon Society’s field just north of the Kolterman Indian mound site is asleep beneath a protective blanket of snow. Beneath this snow is a profound history. And beneath the snow are seeds that were sown on November 21, 2020.

Cultural fire at Buffalo Speaks Reserve preserves American Indian tradition

Cultural fire at Buffalo Speaks Reserve preserves American Indian tradition

By Jim Uhrinak and Matt Smith

Photos by Eddee Daniel

If Buffalo Speaks Reserve is the crown jewel of the Niagara Escarpment along the east side of the Horicon Basin, the Kolterman Indian Mound Group is one of the facets that makes it sparkle.