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'''LeFeber Northwoods Camps''' is a boy scout summer camp owned and run by the [[Scouting in Wisconsin#Milwaukee County Council|Milwaukee County Council]] and is located near [[Laona, Wisconsin]], 250 miles north of Milwaukee, on Hardwood Lake. The camp has an extensive history as a logging camp prior to its purchase and donation to the Boy Scouts in 1930. It features an excellent program drawing in campers from Michigan, Illinois, and several councils located in Wisconsin. LeFeber is nationally accredited by the BSA and has earned additional awards for its quality program. | '''LeFeber Northwoods Camps''' is a boy scout summer camp owned and run by the [[Scouting in Wisconsin#Milwaukee County Council|Milwaukee County Council]] and is located near [[Laona, Wisconsin]], 250 miles north of Milwaukee, on Hardwood Lake. The camp has an extensive history as a logging camp prior to its purchase and donation to the Boy Scouts in 1930. It features an excellent program drawing in campers from Michigan, Illinois, and several councils located in Wisconsin. LeFeber is nationally accredited by the BSA and has earned additional awards for its quality program. | ||
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=== Camp Edward U. Demmer === | === Camp Edward U. Demmer === | ||
The camp is a tribute to the memory of Lawrence Demmer and Emma Uhrig Demmer. | The camp is a tribute to the memory of Lawrence Demmer and Emma Uhrig Demmer. | ||
A complete camp layout was drawn in 1975 to plan for potential construction, however, lack of interest and funds were the cause of abandoning the project | A complete camp layout was drawn in 1975 to plan for potential construction, however, lack of interest and funds were the cause of abandoning the project. An activities shelter, drinkable water pump, two latrines, and flagpole and monument are the only steps toward a developed camp ever taken. The old building was called “C-site” in its heyday.<p> | ||
Six sites were planned in the dense undulating coniferous forest running down the Western and Southern shores of Hardwood Lake. A chapel overlooking the lake, Order of the Arrow circle on Bear Point, the fire bowl halfway between the bay near Demmer and Mayflower Lake, and two additional buildings (an office and another activity shelter) were proposed improvements for Camp Demmer. Designs also included a boardwalk nature trail with an observation blind over mash and bog land between Mayflower and Little Popple Lake.<p> | Six sites were planned in the dense undulating coniferous forest running down the Western and Southern shores of Hardwood Lake. A chapel overlooking the lake, Order of the Arrow circle on Bear Point, the fire bowl halfway between the bay near Demmer and Mayflower Lake, and two additional buildings (an office and another activity shelter) were proposed improvements for Camp Demmer. Designs also included a boardwalk nature trail with an observation blind over mash and bog land between Mayflower and Little Popple Lake.<p> | ||
A road branching off the main road to Demmer leads to Mayflower Lake, SW of Hardwood Lake. Several old logging roads are still visible and used as trails around the lake. On the southern shore, s nesting pair of Osprey (an endangered species) has made a DNR nest box their home. Also, a pair of Common Loons made a nest of a Beaver lodge in the 2004 camp season. The lake is an excellent example of eutrophication, the regression of earth to the most natural or flattest form, which in this case is likely to be a mixed hardwood/softwood forest. This spot was the subject of a US Geological Survey; a Bench Mark remains along the SE trail around the lake. It reads: 1938 ELEVATION ABOVE SEA [the number 1938 is not a date]. This spot is not much lower than Sugarbush Hill, the second highest site in Wisconsin. | A road branching off the main road to Demmer leads to Mayflower Lake, SW of Hardwood Lake. Several old logging roads are still visible and used as trails around the lake. On the southern shore, s nesting pair of Osprey (an endangered species) has made a DNR nest box their home. Also, a pair of Common Loons made a nest of a Beaver lodge in the 2004 camp season. The lake is an excellent example of eutrophication, the regression of earth to the most natural or flattest form, which in this case is likely to be a mixed hardwood/softwood forest. This spot was the subject of a US Geological Survey; a Bench Mark remains along the SE trail around the lake. It reads: 1938 ELEVATION ABOVE SEA [the number 1938 is not a date]. This spot is not much lower than Sugarbush Hill, the second highest site in Wisconsin. | ||
=== Popple Lake Camp === | === Popple Lake Camp === | ||
Popple Lake is located one half mile SE of Mountain Camp and is approximately one mile around the shoreline. Plans were drawn up in 1968 for the camp, but the project never took off. Thirteen campsites were to be cut, and four activity shelters built. The waterfront was to be at Mountain Camp, the chapel on the Northwestern shore of Popple Lake, and the fire bowl to the North of the lake. Popple Lake was intended for be used as a boating only lake. According to underwater topography maps, the lake is only five feet deep at its deepest. | Popple Lake is located one half mile SE of Mountain Camp and is approximately one mile around the shoreline. Plans were drawn up in 1968 for the camp, but the project never took off. Thirteen campsites were to be cut, and four activity shelters built. The waterfront was to be at Mountain Camp, the chapel on the Northwestern shore of Popple Lake, and the fire bowl to the North of the lake. Popple Lake was intended for be used as a boating only lake. According to underwater topography maps, the lake is only five feet deep at its deepest. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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*[http://www.milwaukeeboyscouts.org Milwaukee County Council] | *[http://www.milwaukeeboyscouts.org Milwaukee County Council] | ||
*[http://www.tc.umn.edu/~aren0081/lnchome] Old LeFeber Site | *[http://www.tc.umn.edu/~aren0081/lnchome] Old LeFeber Site | ||
[[Category:Local council camps (Boy Scouts of America)]] | [[Category:Local council camps (Boy Scouts of America)]] | ||
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