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Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. [1] During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary listing of the (freshwater) fish of the area. [2]
The park has a paved looped hiking trail along the north part of the park. There is a large playground on the western side, a fishing lake near the creek, primitive restrooms, and picnic areas. The Doolittle section of the Indian Creek Trail passes through the park and features a walking bridge over the creek.
It is in southern Johnston and northeastern Marshall Counties in the eastern part of the state, near the upper Washita arm of Lake Texoma. The refuge was established in 1946 and contains 16,464 acres (66.3 km 2 ) of protected land managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th-largest US Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District. [1] Lake Texoma is formed by Denison Dam on the Red River in Bryan County, Oklahoma , and Grayson County, Texas , about 726 miles (1,168 km) upstream from the mouth of the river.
The main campground offers several waterfront campsites. The other campground is west of the lake and is designed for larger recreational vehicles. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has announced plans to drain the lake in the fall of 2008 in order to repair the dam and to eradicate gizzard shad which are detrimental to the fishery. [2]
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (HNWR), a haven for migratory birds and other wildlife, lies in northwestern Grayson County, Texas, on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, on the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas. [1] This National Wildlife Refuge is made up of water, marsh, and upland habitat. Visitors can hike, observe wildlife, hunt, and ...
The park founders simply adopted the name for the park long after any Delaware departed the area—well over 100 years before in 1819. [3] The first lake of Shakamak Park was created by the stopping up of a 5-foot (1.5 m) sewer and additional lakes were added in following years (30 years later in the case of Lake Kickapoo).
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of Indiana.The lakes are ordered by their unique names (i.e. Lake Indiana or Indiana Lake would both be listed under "I"). Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but