September 2024

By reporting sightings of reptiles and amphibians on and around Wisconsin’s roads, drivers can help researchers save more of them in the future. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin DNR

Frank’s Hill or “XEE WAKA CAK” (Sacred Hills): Frank Shadewald bequeathed the property known as “Frank’s Hill” to the Three Eagles Foundation upon his untimely death in 2013. The property includes an effigy mound group on the ridge east of STH 193 and a group of small conical mounds, believed to be calendar mounds, on the ridge west of STH 193. Effigy mounds are earthworks in the shapes of birds and animals. Other mounds found in Wisconsin are dome shaped mounds called conical mounds, and long narrow mounds called linear mounds. The effigy mound civilization lived in Wisconsin from roughly 700-1200 A.D. Generally speaking, the mounds at Frank’s Hill are considered to be about 1,000 years old. Photo supplied