Greetings from Madeline Island, named after Madeleine Cadotte, daughter of Chief White Crane and wife of fur trader Michael Cadotte. The Ojibwe (Chippewa) and other native peoples made their home here for hundreds of years before European contact.
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The hike to the cache will take you along the Point Trail Loop. Imagine how this would have looked before “the pineries” were sawed down.
John C. Curtis, tells this account of what he saw back then “ …The wet lands contained either conifer swamps, dominated by tamarack, black spruce, and white cedar, or hardwood swamps with black ash and yellow birch. The dry lands were dominated by pine, with jack and red pine on the lighter sands and white pine on the sandy loams. The heavier soils were typically covered by mixed conifer-hardwoods, with white pine, hemlock, balsam fir, and white spruce as the conifers, and sugar maple, basswood, yellow birch, beech, American elm, red oak, and ironwoods as the deciduous species. Some boreal forest stands of spruce and fir were found in the coldest localities, and combinations of hardwoods typical of the southern forests were present near the tension zone.” The Vegetation of Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959, p. 177.
The logbook must be signed, otherwise there is no proof of your success.
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The Geocache Notification Form has been approved by the Big Bay Park Manager of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager information can be obtained at: http://dnr.wi.gov/files/PDF/forms/2500/2500-118.pdf