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The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.
The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.
The researchers who raised two ancient dugout canoes submerged in Madison's Lake Mendota announced Thursday they had discovered fragments or chunks of at least eight more canoes in the lake, an ...
The Lake Mendota Dugout Canoe Discovery. Special | 57m 40s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists describe the recovery of an ancient canoe.
Recently thawed Lake Mendota has become home to migrating swans, ducks and geese. Their yearly return marks the beginning of the nesting season and provides cultivation benefits to the lake ecosystem, ...
A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical ...
MADISON, Wis. — With a bit of help, another ancient piece of history has sailed home to the Ho-Chunk Nation — and marked Lake Mendota as having preserved the oldest canoe ever discovered in ...