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Wildwood

This preserve protects a variety of habitats including a small pond, a forest, wetlands, a prairie and agricultural acreage. A bird’s-eye view of Wildwood would show an island of dark green woods amid a sea of farmland. The preserve indeed serves as an oasis for many wild plants and creatures. On an early morning visit ...

  • 03/25/2016
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Glennwood Nature Preserve

Glennwood contains a circumneutral bog, one of only 15 in Indiana. The bog once was a lake, but it is now nearly filled with a springy mat of mosses, ferns and sedges resting on a bed of peat. Poison sumac, pin oak, willow and red maple surround the bog area. In the forest around the bog grow Canadian mayflower, shiny club ...

  • 03/25/2016
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Bock Nature Preserve

Bock Nature Preserve

Sap was once harvested from the maples here and boiled down into syrup. This beech/maple woods also includes tulip, sycamore, black cherry and blue ash — an unusual tree in the area. The grinding of glaciers over the area left several depressions that are now small ponds, the largest approximately an acre and a half. Flowering trillium blooms abundantly here in spring, ...

  • 03/25/2016
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ACRES Land Trust is a membership-based nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting natural and working lands in northeast Indiana, southern Michigan and northwest Ohio. More than 2,000 ACRES members make it possible to protect these areas and offer trail systems for free public use, open dawn to dusk daily.

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