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The Cabin Creek Raised Bog is a 40-acre raised bog located in Randolph County, Indiana, near Farmland. Identified as one of the few post-glacial raised bogs remaining in the Eastern Deciduous Forest Province of the central United States, [ 1 ] it was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1975.
[1] [2] A map of the Great Black Swamp, indicating its extent before the nineteenth century. The Great Black Swamp (also known simply as the Black Swamp) was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana, United States, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century.
The Limberlost Swamp in the eastern part of the present-day U.S. state of Indiana was a large, nationally known wetlands region with streams that flowed into the Wabash River. It originally covered 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ) of present-day Adams and Jay counties.
Indiana wetlands are no longer protected. Indiana used to have one of the more protective wetlands laws in the country. That law had been in place for almost 20 years, but that changed in 2021.
The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.
Indiana's decisions also could affect wildlife throughout the watershed, Boritt said, including the more than 80 species of Great Lakes fish that rely on wetlands to spawn, feed or protect their ...
The resolution expresses the importance of wetlands to Tippecanoe County's ecosystem and watershed, citing that at least 85% of Indiana's wetlands have been lost to development.
Rare habitats exist in the Hoosier Prairie Preserve, including the dry black oak barrens, wetland pools, and moist prairies. The areas support over 350 native plants. [1] Of these, 43 are uncommon or rarely seen within Indiana. These rare plants include the white wild indigo, prairie parsley, Indian paintbrush, rose pogonia and the tall Indian ...