Abstract
Crex Meadows, located in the sand barrens of northwestern Wisconsin, has a vegetational composition of wetlands mixed with jack pine-scrub oak prairie savanna. The vegetational history of this prairie-forest ecotone starts with the examination of the written records and journals of early explorers, and continues through the effects of pre-European settlement, major European settlement, and present-day changes. The pre-settlement vegetation of Crex is examined and compared quantitatively to presentday vegetation using the original surveyors' records. Past vegetation of natural prairie was maintained by fire and the current prescribed burning performed by the Wisconsin Conservation Department has restored the area to a state similar to that of pre-settlement times, brush prairie savanna.
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