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plains and scattered bedrock knolls. Soils are predominantly well drained loam and silt over gravelly sandy outwash, silty alluvium, silty and clayey lacustrine, or silty loess." The original vegetation cover consists primarily of oak forest, prairie, marsh and sedge meadow, wet prairie, and lowland shrubs.
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Primrose near the intersection of WI-92 and County Road A. There is a small dam where County Highway G crosses the creek in the unincorporated
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Pecatonica Basin. The 156.64 miles (250 km) of the streams comprising the West Branch Sugar River watershed cover 66.74 square miles (173 km), or 42713 acres, with 9.41 acres covered by unnamed lakes and 1131.91 acres of wetlands.
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