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Parks advocates, city of Lincoln campaign to keep Wilderness wild

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Editor's Pick Alert Top Story

Parks advocates, city of Lincoln campaign to keep Wilderness wild

• BY SUSAN LARSON RODENBURG AND MAGGIE STUCKEY-ROSS
• Sep 1, 2021
• Sep 1, 2021 Updated Jul 29, 2022
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(From left) Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird; Adam Hintz, Friends of Wilderness Park president; and Bradley Brandt, Lincoln Parks Foundation chair, on the suspension bridge located south of the Old Cheney Trailhead at Wilderness Park. 

• PHOTO BY GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star

Restoration of the historic Epworth Lake Park arches is one of many projects included in the $2.1 million campaign plan.

• COURTESY PHOTO BY SUSAN LARSON RODENBURG

Wilderness Park is a seven-mile, linear, 1,472-acre woodland nestled just west of the Jamaica North Trail along Salt Creek from Van Dorn Street to Saltillo Road.

• COURTESY PHOTO

Anne Sorensen walks her dog Red in Wilderness Park in September 2020. The park features 31 miles of hiking, cycling and horse trails within its naturally wooded landscape. The hiking trail was designated part of the National Recreation Trails Program in 1977.

• PHOTO BY GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star

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BY SUSAN LARSON RODENBURG AND MAGGIE STUCKEY-ROSS

Imagine strolling on what may have been trails forged by Native Americans, experiencing the golden light from a Nebraska sunrise through the treetops of massive bur oaks and cottonwoods bordering the rushing waters of Salt Creek. You hear the call of a red-tailed hawk, the splashing of beavers, and see the flash of a red fox or a fawn chasing its mother.

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30 spectacular Nebraska vistas

Platte River perfect

Traversing the state from west to east, the Platte River plays an important role in the lives of man, wildlife and fish throughout its length, providing habitat, water for drinking and irrigation and recreation for millions of creatures. 

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Hoarfrost on Snake River Falls

Fed by Sandhills springs via Merritt Reservoir, the Snake River seldom freezes. Mist rising from its falls, however, will coat everything around it with hoarfrost in sub-zero weather. 

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Painted woods

Fall color at Indian Cave State Park from scenic overlook on loop road. 

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Sunset near Calamus

A windmill is silhouetted against an orange and red sunset near Calamus Reservoir in Loup County. 

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Lightning near Chadron

Lightning decorates the sky above a patch of badlands west of Chadron in 2014.

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Niobrara's mystery

Cloaked in early morning light and fog, the Niobrara River evokes nature's ethereal beauty and mystery as it flows through Cherry County. 

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Sioux County sunrise

Bull elk at sunrise in Sioux County.

Copyright Robert Grier Photography

Sandhills ridge top

A mule deer doe and fawn survey the landscape at sunset from a Sandhills ridge top in Cherry County. 

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Wagon Train scene

Wagon Train Lake State Recreation Area is about 2 miles east of Hickman.

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Mexican Canyon Road

Sunset along the Mexican Canyon Road at Fort Robinson State Park near Crawford in Dawes County. 

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Badlands beauty

A midsummer storm moves noisily and colorfully across the Badlands north of Harrison. The colorless, sedimentary layers laid down by an ancient ocean, now exposed and eroded, are temporarily awash with color. 

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Platte River

Goose hunters setting out decoys on the Platte River in Hall County. 

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Ponca State Park

The Missouri National Recreation River Visitor and Education Center at Ponca State Park in Dixon County is shown here.

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Full moon

A full moon hangs over grasslands and a windmill in Sioux County in 2014.

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Chat Canyon

Chat Canyon Wildlife Management Area in Cherry County, acquired in 2013 and opened in 2014 in cooperation with Nebraska Forest Service as the state's first Forestry and Wildlife Management Area. 

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Buttes

Buttes in winter in Nebraska.

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North Platte River

The North Platte River near Lewellen. Canada geese and mallards swim in the wintry early morning mist. 

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Prairie colors

The tallgrass prairie on Nine-Mile Prairie turns to fall colors in 1996.

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Fort Robinson

The still water at Grabel Ponds reflects the colors of fall at Fort Robinson State Park. 

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Platte River sunset

The Platte River from the Lincoln Journal Tower at sunset, with the Lied Platte River Bridge (the converted Rock Island Railroad bridge) pictured. 

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Prairie landscape

A passing thunderstorm and lightning in Sandhills rangeland and meadows in the northwest corner of Cherry County. 

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Lake Ogallala

Lake Ogallala 

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Toadstool Geological Park

Toadstool Geological Park in the Badlands north of Crawford in Sioux County at sunrise. 

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Sun reflects on clouds

The setting sun at Prairie Wolf Wildlife Management Area in Nance County reflects on clouds seen through the silhouette of bluestem grass in 2004.

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Thunderstorm on prairie

Shortgrass prairie with an impending thunderstorm 5 miles west and 1 mile north of Bushnell in Kimball County. 

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Grove Lake

Grove Lake Wildlife Management Area and the east branch of Vertigre Creek in Antelope County. 

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Wildcat Hills

Wildcat Hills near Gering in Scotts Bluff County. 

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Nebraska lake

Boating on Sherman Reservoir State Recreation Area in 2009.

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Mouth of Niobrara

The mouth of the Niobrara River on the Missouri River resembles the natural river with backwater sloughs and marshes. 

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Chat Canyon

Chat Canyon Wildlife Management Area in Cherry County.

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Restoration of the historic Epworth Lake Park arches is one of many projects included in the $2.1 million campaign plan.

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Wilderness Park is a seven-mile, linear, 1,472-acre woodland nestled just west of the Jamaica North Trail along Salt Creek from Van Dorn Street to Saltillo Road.

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Anne Sorensen walks her dog Red in Wilderness Park in September 2020. The park features 31 miles of hiking, cycling and horse trails within its naturally wooded landscape. The hiking trail was designated part of the National Recreation Trails Program in 1977.

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