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The Driftless: the land and humans

By Jeffrey Broberg | February 1, 2021 |

Driftless landscape

Here in the Driftless, it’s a never-ending cycle: surface water infiltrates into the soils and karst, becoming groundwater that quickly flows from nearby springs to become surface water again.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Driftless Area, geology

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