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It is a National Natural Landmark and a State Nature Preserve owned by the City of Evansville and operated by the non-profit Wesselman Nature Society. The preserve consists of over 190 acres (0.77 km 2 ) of virgin bottomland hardwood forest complemented by an additional 50 acres (200,000 m 2 ) of younger forest, field, and pond.
This growth resulted in dramatic changes to Evansville's riverfront in just 15 years, with a brand new Tropicana casino facility and new corporate headquarters for Vectren and Old National Bank. On November 6, 2005, an F3 tornado struck the Evansville area and killed 25 people. The tornado began in Kentucky and crossed the Ohio River.
Evansville is a city in and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. [5] With a population of 118,414 at the 2020 census, it is Indiana's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the most populous city in Southern Indiana, and the 249th-most populous city in the United States.
Probably the largest sinkhole in Indiana. Located in Hoosier State Forest. Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve: 1973: Evansville: Vanderburgh: Municipal A southern old growth forest Wyandotte Caves: 1972: Leavenworth
Saving old-growth forests Conserving what old-growth trees are left should be a priority for Washington state. These older trees are critical in storing massive amounts of carbon.
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Southern Indiana's topography is considerably more varied than Central and Northern Indiana, including large tracts of forest, rolling hills, and karst caves. The region is also home to the oldest exposed Devonian fossil beds in the world at the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area .
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...