Steven Higgs is an award-winning environmental writer and photographer and author of A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana and Eternal Vigilance: Nine Tales of Environmental Heroism in Indiana.

Foreword by Jason Kissel, Executive Director, ACRES Land Trust

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Natural Area Etiquette

Part 1: The Land Stewards

National Park Service

Indiana Department of Natural Resources

Division of Nature Preserves

Division of State Parks & Lakes

Division of Fish & Wildlife

Division of Forestry

Indiana Heritage Trust

The Nature Conservancy

ACRES Land Trust

NICHES Land Trust

Shirley Heinz Land Trust

Central Indiana Land Trust

Red-tail Land Conservancy

Ouabache Land Conservancy

Little River Wetlands Project

Other Public Stewards

National Audubon Society - Important Bird Areas

Part 2: The Northern Indiana Landscape

Sculpted by Rock, Ice, and Water

Northern Indiana Physiography

The Natural Regions

Part 3: Destinations

Section 1:

List of Sites

Lake Michigan Natural Region

Northwestern Morainal Natural Region

Lake Border Section

Chicago Lake Plain Section

Valparaiso Moraine Section

Section 2:

List of Sites

Grand Prairie Natural Region

Grand Prairie Section

Kankakee Sand Section

Kankakee Marsh Section

Section 3:

List of Sites

Northern Lakes Natural Region

Section 4:

List of Sites

Central Till Plain Natural Region

Entrenched Valley Section

Tipton Till Plain SectionBluffton Till Plain Section

Black Swamp Natural Region

Part 4: Supplementary Materials

Species List

Glossary

Resources

Index