Garton Bur Oak

    County:    Sheboygan 
Lot size:   35 acres  
Established:  05/20/2005  

Property story

This parcel in the Pigeon River watershed and Lake Michigan Basin contains woodlands, wetlands, surface waters, and a primary environmental corridor that provides a vegetative buffer and water quality protection for the Pigeon River, and habitat for mammals, songbirds, reptiles, amphibians, migratory waterfowl, and other water-dependent and upland species. This property is also known as “Bur Oak” because of the beautiful specimen bur oak tree located there, which is of significant age and size.

The property shall be used only for conservation, open space, scenic and recreational purposes.