{"id":233837,"date":"2025-10-18T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233837\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:00:16","slug":"923-acre-wildlife-area-now-open-in-dane-county-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233837\/","title":{"rendered":"923-acre wildlife area now open in Dane County | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VERONA, Wis. (WKOW) \u2014 Dane County Parks is announcing the public opening of the Sugar River Wildlife Area in the Verona and Montrose Townships. The newly-expanded, 923-acre property spans more than a mile and a half of the Sugar River and Badger Mill Creek, offering diverse landscapes and wildlife opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can enjoy activities such as waterfowl, deer, and turkey hunting, trout fishing, hiking, and snowshoeing. The area also features two canoe\/kayak landings for paddling on the Sugar River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis property is a great example of how we can balance recreation, conservation, and agricultural use in ways that benefit both people and the environment,\u201d Dane County Executive Melissa Agard said.<\/p>\n<p>Dane County Parks has expanded the wildlife area from 60 acres in 2018 to more than 900 acres. The park also includes a 108-acre public hunting easement on private land.<\/p>\n<p>Future improvements will focus on enhancing biodiversity and wildlife habitat, alongside efforts to improve public access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VERONA, Wis. (WKOW) \u2014 Dane County Parks is announcing the public opening of the Sugar River Wildlife Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,3,79,13109,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-233837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-state","12":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}