Bucky Traditional Cache
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Cache is originally being placed for the DNR free entry weekend Cache Quest event.
Make sure to right the clue down to find the final. You should be able to find it both on the lid and/or the log book.
This cache is one of the caches that you will need to visit in order to determine the location of where the Water Queen is being held captive. Each of the residents saw something as she was led away from her home at Mauthe Lake.
Mauthe Lake is a gift of the last Ice Age. When the glaciers retreated, a large chunk of ice remained behind. Rock, gravel and other glacial debris settled around the ice chunk and buried it. Eventually, the ice chunk melted leaving behind a large depression. This depression filled with water and became Mauthe Lake. The East Branch of the Milwaukee River keeps Mauthe Lake filled and full of fish and other water creatures and plant life. If you took all the water out of the lake, it would look like a huge 30-foot deep mixing bowl.
Mauthe Lake is part of the Milwaukee River Water Shed since the East Branch of the Milwaukee River flow through it. Check out this link for information about the watershed. http://dnr.wi.gov/water/basin/milw/
Surrounding Mauthe Lake is the Milwaukee River and Swamp State Natural Area. State Natural Areas protect ecological communities that were not or very little disturbed by European settlement.
Milwaukee River and Swamp features an unusual combination of southern and northern wet-mesic forests situated along 0.75 mile of a slow, meandering warm water stream with accompanying shrubs zones and communities including lowland hardwood forest, conifer swamp, and a small bog lake. The river bottom is mucky with sand and gravel and there are good populations of northern pike, black crappie, walleye, and several smaller forage species. Aquatic plants include water-lilies, water-milfoil, coon's-tail, waterweed, giant duckweed, water nymph, and several pondweeds. One large spring, 1000 feet long, feeds the river in the north portion of the site. Bordering the river is a dense shrub zone that changes abruptly to a yellow birch, white birch, American elm, black ash, and basswood lowland forest. East of the small lowland forest is a more dense conifer swamp of mainly white cedar but also tamarack and black spruce. A good representative understory is present. A small bog lake occurs in the eastern portion of the natural area. Milwaukee River and Swamp is owned by the DNR and was designated a State Natural Area in 1971.
The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to of the Wisconsin DNR and has been approved by Jackie Scharfenberg- Environmental Educator/Naturalist at Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. 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
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