driftless area

noun

1. a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.

Example Sentences

The Driftless Area Land Conservancy and the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation issued a joint statement praising the decision.

From Seattle Times

“We should not set a precedent that a simple land swap is all it takes to plow through a national treasure,” Driftless Area Land Conservancy Executive Director Jennifer Filipiak said in the statement.

From Seattle Times

The Statz family farm is in the Driftless Area, a fertile, rolling swath of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa untouched by ice age glaciers and the rocky “drift” they left as they retreated.

From New York Times

Presumably among the unsnobby, his grandparents Richard and Mallie Lloyd Jones purchased land in 1863 along the Wisconsin River in the Driftless Area, where unglaciated rolling hills eluded the Ice Age debris that leveled much of the Midwest.

From New York Times

The district runs from north of the university town of Menomonie in the northwest down through the Mississippi River bluffs and rolling hills of the picturesque Driftless Area and includes Chippewa Falls, home of Leinenkugel beer.

From Washington Times