La Crosse Public Library and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Murphy
Library have made a cooperative effort to digitize materials relating to
La Crosse’s urban wetland, a popular and important topic in the community.
Aerial View
Looking
west -- Lang Drive is on lower edge and the former Chicago & North
Western tracks are now a bike trail and appear to cut across the photo;
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy tracks hug the western edge of the
ox bow bends of the La Crosse River; photo taken by Kurt Brownell on July
18, 1979