Location: Barrens between Millston and Black River Falls
Jackson County
We walked 14 miles of barrens transects in most of the best Frosted Elfin sites in our Frosted Elfin long-term monitoring (mostly 28-35 year time series). Today probably ranks as about our 4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th highest Frosted Elfin day ever in Jackson, Wood, or Jackson + Wood Counties. Five of the 6 roadside ROW and pipeline ROW units along Stanton Creek Road had their highest Frosted Elfin counts ever. Also record-setting was the pipeline ROW diverging to the northwest parallel to an ATV trail about 0.5 mile north of Stanton Creek Road. We also surveyed 7 more miles of transects west of Hunter Haven Road in addition to the pipeline, and 10 survey units in the Bauer-Brockway Barrens area. We also saw at least one undentified elfin and 36 unidentified duskywings.
We walked 14 miles of barrens transects in most of the best Frosted Elfin sites in our Frosted Elfin long-term monitoring (mostly 28-35 year time series). Today probably ranks as about our 4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th highest Frosted Elfin day ever in Jackson, Wood, or Jackson + Wood Counties. Five of the 6 roadside ROW and pipeline ROW units along Stanton Creek Road had their highest Frosted Elfin counts ever. Also record-setting was the pipeline ROW diverging to the northwest parallel to an ATV trail about 0.5 mile north of Stanton Creek Road. We also surveyed 7 more miles of transects west of Hunter Haven Road in addition to the pipeline, and 10 survey units in the Bauer-Brockway Barrens area. We also saw at least one undentified elfin and 36 unidentified duskywings.