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
east where the La Crosse River joins the Black River, just north of Riverside
Park; the standing water west of the Visitor & Convention's Bureau
was later filled in; the former Mobil Oil site is barely visible on the
left edge of the photo; photo taken by Kurt Brownell on July 18, 1979