Sand, golf and hopes for an economic boom in Central Wisconsin

The Laurentide Ice Sheet did quite a number on Wisconsin.

As it advanced from the north, it created Glacial Lake Wisconsin, at 550,000 acres about four times the size of modern-day Lake Winnebago. As the Green Bay lobe of the glacier melted, a massive crack formed that rapidly drained the lake to the south, creating the dramatic rock formations of the Wisconsin Dells and the towering bluffs along the Lower Wisconsin River.

The old lake bed remains, along with piles of sand and a spectacular opportunity — hiding in plain sight for the past 14,000 years — that could pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy...

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Ken Notes: I wish we had other models for lifestyle housing development. I see net zero energy communities. Theatre communities. Travel communities. Micro communities. Ag communities. Music and Arts communities.....