The Highway Cuts Through State Park and Reserve Land

The Federal Highway Administration and the Wisconsin Department of Transporations (WDOT) will tell you that the proposed Highway 131 reconstruction (into a major truck route) "will not cross areas that are developed for Park, Recreation, Wildlife of Waterfowl Refuge." But this is not true. Here are just a few of the locations that the new highway will cut through:

• Wildcat Mountain State Park
• The Kickapoo Valley Reserve - scheduled to become a park;
• The Upper Kickapoo Valley Prehistoric Archeological Distrcit (over 400 archeological sites); - learn how the WDOT has handled this issue in the past
• The national natural landmark area known as the Kickapoo Valley Natural Area;
• Areas included on the National Rivers Inventory;

The unique driftless landscape is also home to 18 endangered, threatened or critical speicies - all this in just six short miles of road!