{"id":5053,"date":"2017-07-20T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisducks.org\/?post_type=news&amp;p=5053"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T21:13:19","slug":"wausau-chapter-adopts-george-w-mead-wildlife-area","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/news\/wausau-chapter-adopts-george-w-mead-wildlife-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Wausau Chapter Adopts George W. Mead Wildlife Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5049\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisducks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Mead_700x251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5049 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mead_700x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In July of 2017, WWA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisducks.org\/event\/wausau-chapter-banquet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wausau Chapter<\/a>, lead by volunteer Melanie Love, successfully adopted the George W. Mead Wildlife Area. Mead is located five miles north of Highway 10 between Stevens Point and Marshfield. The property extends into Marathon, Wood and Portage counties. While project plans for the site are still ongoing the chapter\u2019s agreement with the WDNR calls for with volunteers keeping the parking lots clean, maintaining gates, signage and other infrastructures, invasive species control of <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.wi.gov\/topic\/invasives\/fact\/commonbuckthorn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buckthorn<\/a> and trail maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on our Adopt-A-Wildlife Area program and the five wildlife areas WWA has adopted to date, please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisducks.org\/habitat\/adopt-wildlife-area\/\">Adopt-A-Wildlife Area page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-5053","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomiccoffee.com\/WWA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}