| Category: | Park, |
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| Address: | Allen Rd, Browntown, WI 53522, USA |
| Postal code: | 53522 |
| Phone: | (888) 936-7463 |
| Website: | http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Lands/naturalareas/index.asp?SNA=23 |
The browntown old Forest is mature woods filled with oaks and other varieties. So far looking at this woods I haven't noticed that has been taken over by invasive species.
Browntown Oak Forest occupies the north-facing slope of a St. Peter sandstone ridge in Wisconsin's Driftless Area and contains excellent examples of southern dry and dry-mesic forests. On the ridge top and slopes the soil type is a shallow Dodgeville silt loam. The lower edge has sandstone outcrops and falls steeply 50 feet to a low plain of ...