Driftless area landowners step up to make trail a reality There's evidence of an effort in the late 1980s to develop a public access trail in the lower Wisconsin River valley, Barzen said. But it ...

From steamboats to bird journals, river maps to agricultural research, UW-La Crosse has long been a repository for items related to the Upper Mississippi River and the Driftless Area of Wisconsin ...

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse library already maintains collections of river maps and charts dating back a hundred or more years.