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A quartzite outcropping overlooks Devil’s Lake in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. The lake is sacred to the Ho-Chunk Nation, who call it Tee Wakacak, or Holy Lake.
Sheer bluffs, deep streams, and fertile valleys are all hallmarks of the Driftless Region of western Wisconsin. Encompassing some 24,000 square miles, the Driftless is a geological marvel, a landscape that the glaciers of the last Ice Age never scoured. It is free of glacial drift—the rocks and sediments left behind in much of
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