Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to Be

Protecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River—a dam that was ultimately never completed—and how this failed project evolved into a model for cross—cultural multi—institutional grassroots ecological protection and low—impact recreation through an innovative agreement with the Ho—Chunk Nation. From the author's perspective over more than two de...