Tag: Fort McCoy
CEMML Supports Deer Season Harvest at Fort McCoy
In early December, CEMML staff based at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, provided support to the installation’s wildlife program by helping to organize and facilitate the gun-deer season harvest. The hunt took in 464 deer, exceeding their minimum goal by over 100.
December 8, 2022
CEMML Archaeologists Discover Lead Balls Dating Back to World War I
CEMML Archaeologists were investigating a site at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin when they came across nearly a dozen small lead balls spread across approximately half of the 1.5-acre site area. The lead balls were likely shrapnel from an artillery projectile fired sometime around World War I.
October 28, 2022
Tracking a History of Arrowheads at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
An article compiled by CEMML and the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch walks through the history of arrow heads found at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin and what they can tell us about the Native American peoples that utilized them.
September 23, 2022
CEMML Helps Track History of 112-Year-Old Wood Crate Artifact
Over a century-old wood crate donated to Fort McCoy by the grandson of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, for whom the installation is named after, provides insight into Fort McCoy’s history. CEMML’s Miranda Alexander helped track the crate’s origins and its use.
August 26, 2022
CEMML Archaeologist Discusses Painstaking Work of Archaeology, Finding Artifacts
CEMML Archaeologist, Tyler Olsen spoke with Fort McCoy’s Public Affairs Office about the labor involved in archaeological work. Beyond just the physical part of finding or not finding artifacts, the documenting, researching, cataloguing, and other work related to artifacts can be just as time consuming. He considers it all a labor of love.
August 26, 2022
CEMML Aids in Archaeological Survey Focusing on Era Between World Wars
In July, archaeological team members from CEMML and the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch held a special archaeological survey and dig at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The survey examined areas around old concrete tent pads dating between the time of the first and second world war.
August 26, 2022
CEMML-aided Metal Detection Survey Unearths Dozens of Artifacts at Fort McCoy
A metal detection survey conducted at Fort McCoy, in partnership with CEMML and the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch, unearthed dozens of artifacts including coins, tent tensioner devices, and military rank badges, all dating to the early 1900s.
August 23, 2022
Charcoal Discovered by CEMML Archaeologists at Fort McCoy Dates Back Nearly 1,500 Years
The process of determining the age of artifacts buried in the earth is not an exact science. However, following the discovery of charcoal samples by CEMML archeologists at an excavation site at Fort McCoy in the summer of 2021, radiocarbon dating helped estimate that the samples belonged to the Middle Woodland Period, roughly 1,500 years ago.
July 7, 2022
CEMML Employee Recognized by CSU for Outstanding Service at Fort McCoy
Julie Steinhoff, a longtime CEMML employee has received one of Colorado State University’s 2022 Outstanding Achievement Awards for her service at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. She is one of six State Classified employees recognized.
April 11, 2022
CEMML Wildland Fire Personnel Aid in Aerial Fire-Suppression Training at Fort McCoy
CEMML personnel, as part of Fort McCoy’s prescribed burn team, joined with the Wisconsin National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment of Madison to complete prescribed-burns and conduct fire-suppression training on the installation’s South Post. Scott Sturkol of Fort McCoy’s Public Affairs Office shares the effort in an article for the La Crosse Tribune.
April 6, 2022
Project Recall: CEMML archaeologists discover signs of Native American history at Fort McCoy
In 2017, CEMML archaeologists undertook an excavation unlike any previously performed at Fort McCoy. The discovery of copper bracelet fragments, trade beads and flints likely reflect an early 1800-1830s era camp of Ho-Chunk tribal members in the time just before the first European settlers began to move into the area.
January 14, 2022
CEMML Participates in Rare December Prescribed Burn at Fort McCoy
CEMML wildland fire staff recently participated in a prescribed burn at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. While December is late for conducting prescribed burns, which are generally conducted in the spring and fall, the conditions were ideal. Prescribed burns help to improve wildlife habitat, control invasive plant species, restore native plant communities, and reduce wildfire potential.
December 10, 2021