Sign of spring: cranes at Illinois Beach State Park. They're camouflaged in the brown grass but their bugling gave them away.
I spoke to the driver of one of the trucks hauling rocks for the shoreline stabilization project. He said the quarry is in Waterloo, Wisconsin. Rocks for inshore are trucked in. Rocks for the offshore reefs are trucked to the Port of Milwaukee and sent by barge, a trip that can take six hours. Because the weather has been so mild they've been able to get weeks ahead of schedule.
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