Fifty-Five Percent of Wetlands,
Lakes Drained

• Using scanned and rectified historical aerial photography, researchers estimate that approximately 5,863 wetland acres remained;
  
• Small networks of open-channel drainage ditches were visible in the 1937/38 aerial photos; and
  
• Artificial channels were dug to drain marshes into Seven Mile Creek.

See Fox Lake in 1938, shown at left. (Scroll over map for location). Next