Portage County

During the chill of a Wisconsin winter, there are few things more satisfying than a warm fire. Heating your home with wood can be less expensive than other sources of home heating energy, and firewood is a renewable resource. Prices of heating fuels vary considerably, but non-renewable fossil fuels and electricity are commonly 2 to [...]

The University of Wisconsin Forestry Extension programs offer a wide variety of educational programming and materials for woodland owners. The Wisconsin Woodland Owner Education website provides access to many of these initiatives. Topics Woodland Assistance — Designed to help new private woodland owners achieve their management goals. Information is provided on a variety of topics from hands-on information [...]

The NEW 2011 Portage County Plat Books will be available beginning October 24, 2011 - a convenient reference for local governments, private realty, surveying companies, and the general public. Plat Books make use of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) to represent land ownership patterns on a county-wide basis. Prepared from a variety of data sources, including U.S. Census TIGER [...]