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The Hayes Arboretum is an arboretum of 330 acres (130 ha) located in Richmond, Indiana, United States. [1] The main (west) entrance is open free to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., while the east entrance, which provides access to both hiking and mountain biking trails, is open daily from dawn to dusk.
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Big Walnut Creek: 1985 [2]: Bainbridge: Putnam: State & private Contains one of the few stands in Indiana where beech, sugar maple, and tulip poplar grow on alluvial Genesee soil.
Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve: Evansville: Vanderburgh: Southwestern Indiana: 240 acres, owned by the City and operated by the non-profit Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve Society Woodlawn Nature Center: Elkhart: Elkhart: Northern Indiana: website, 10 acres, natural history museum, managed by the Woodlawn Nature Council Zion Nature Center ...
Centred Outdoors guides will lead one-mile nature walks at the park with a specific focus on the arboretum this Sunday at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and Wednesday at 6 p.m.
The second preserve is the 3,349-acre (13.55 km 2) Ten O'Clock Line Nature Preserve. This preserve was designated in 2010, and is Indiana's largest. It also contains yellowwood trees, and is the home of some of Indiana's deep forest species, including the red bat, timber rattlesnake, and broad-winged hawk.
The Hobart Nature District is located in the City of Hobart, Indiana and includes over 1,000 acres (400 ha) of scenic parks, wetlands and floodplains, winding rivers, peaceful lakes, open prairies, oak savannas, old-growth forests, and undulating ravines.
The Indiana General Assembly in 1901 created the Indiana State Board of Forestry. [1] [2] Entrance sign. In May 1903, the Indiana state government purchased 2,028 acres (8.21 km 2) of forest in the north of Clark County, noted for its knob features (isolated conical hills), [3] for use as Indiana's first state forest, at a cost of US$16,000. [4]