Strategic Plans for Sacred Sites Adopted

AFTER nearly a year of planning, writing, and seeking expert and public input, the master plans for Man Mound National Historic Landmark and Yellow Thunder Memorial have been completed and adopted by SCHS and the Sauk County Board of Supervisors. The Society would like to thank the staff of the Sauk County Land, Resources, and Environment Department for facilitating the process and Cassandra Fowler in particular for writing the plans. They provide for a twenty-year agreement between the Society which owns the sites and Sauk County which maintains them. Future projects at Man Mound include new mound maintenance and preservation techniques developed in consultation with Bill Quackenbush, the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Ho-Chunk Nation as well as new interpretive panels. At Yellow Thunder Memorial, future plans include a native prairie area and interpretive panels in Ho-Chunk and English. The adopted master plans can be read in full on the Society’s website by clicking on the SACRED SITES link at the top of the homepage.