Badger
If you live in Wisconsin, you may already be a badger—a badger football fan that is.
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Honey Bee on flower
Wisconsin state insect.
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Perched Mourning Dove
The mourning dove was named the state symbol of peace in 1971.
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illustration of muskellunge by Virgil Beck
Meet the muskellunge—a lean, mean fightin' machine.
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Robin
Wisconsin state bird.
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Sugar Maple Tree
The sugar maple was selected as the state tree by school children in a statewide vote in 1893.
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White-tailed Deer
The white-tailed deer is one of North America's most abundant big-game animal.
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Whooping Crane
2006 marked the first year that whooping cranes hatched in the wild in the Midwest in over 100 years!
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Portrait of an american badger
Although badgers have been associated with our coat of arms, the state flag, the University of Wisconsin, the official seal and Cornish miners since the days of the Wisconsin Territory,
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Large crowd of people celebrating and dancing the polka at an Oktoberfest celebration
For those who simply must know why the polka was recently given official status over the Chicken
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Close-up of cows in summer
The dairy cow was added to the statutes as Wisconsin's official "domestic animal" in recognition
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Fossil of a trilobite
The Wisconsin Geological Society proposed a state fossil in 1985 to encourage interest in our geological heritage.
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Galena
The state mineral became Galena at the same time red granite became the state rock
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Red granite rocks
Red granite became the state rock in 1971.
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Farmer holding soil in hands
Believe it or not, we even have a state soil!
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Close-up of a single Purple flowered Wild Violets (Viola papilionacea)
State flowers were first nominated in 1908.
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