Driftless Area


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Drift·less Area

(drĭft′ləs)
An eroded, unglaciated region of the northern Midwest including most of western Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota.
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FRIDAY The Driftless Area (2015) (Sony Movie Channel, 9pm) Premiere Based on the novel by Tom Drury, who co-wrote the screenplay, The Driftless Area stars Anton Yelchin as Pierre, a bartender who returns to his midwestern hometown following the death of his parents.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources and partners will conserve over 300 acres of key cerulean warbler habitat in the Driftless Area of northeast Iowa through the acquisition of three tracts.
The SWGSCA lies within the unglaciated, driftless area of Wisconsin, which is characterized by hilly topography.
Oak Brook Trout Unlimited has supported TUDARE (Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort) -- its current flagship Midwestern stream program -- through operating grants and monetary contributions, volunteer efforts and planning collaboration with local government partners for projects in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Geology buffs can also explore glacial features along Wisconsin's 1,200-mile-long Ice Age Trail or avoid them altogether in the Driftless Area, a region mysteriously untouched by the massive ice sheets of the Pleistocene Epoch.
This is how I learned to hunt, in the heart of the Driftless Area of southeastern Minnesota.
I grew up on and around farms in the Driftless Area of southwest Wisconsin, and my family still owns a 200-acre farm just east of my hometown of Lancaster.
Ancient glaciers passed by the Driftless Area and waterways vein its interior, forming an enchanting, enigmatic landscape of sharp ridgetops and deep valleys.
Much of the frac sand mining in the Midwest is from near-surface Paleozoic sandstones of west-central and southwestern Wisconsin; and portions of southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and northwestern Illinois referred to as the "driftless area" (Syverson and Colgan, 2004) (Figure 7) (Plate 1).
(2012) examined the distribution of the dace in the Wisconsin Driftless Area in Illinois and failed to find evidence of it in the Apple River drainage.