Hidden Along the Little Sugar River, a Prairie Waits
Randy and Peggy Kruse have spent years restoring and maintaining a six-acre natural area along Highway 69. Now the question is what its future should be.
Just north of the New Glarus wastewater treatment plant, tucked between Highway 69 and the Sugar River Bicycle Trail, sits a six-acre property many people pass without ever really seeing or thinking about.
Randy and Peggy Kruse see it differently. For nearly two decades, the former New Glarus veterinarian and his wife have owned, restored and maintained the property as a quiet natural space along the Little Sugar River.
The land is not a park, not exactly a trailhead and not quite private in the way most private land is understood. People walk through it. Dogs follow the mowed paths. Bicyclists pass nearby. Trout move through the river. Prairie grasses grow where box elders and willows once crowded the streambank.
And for years, Randy and Peggy have kept after it.
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