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2025: Year of the Snake
The Chinese snake zodiac emblem. Greetings all! In celebration of year of the snake, I thought it would be fun to tell you about some of...
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Notes from underground
Karst regions occur around the world where carbonate rocks, primarily limestone and dolomite deposited on the beds of ancient seas, are...
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Fish Habitat from Old Christmas Trees
Thick ice on Old Timber Lake. On Monday the 27th of January, Big Oak staff and some volunteers from the community created fish habitat...
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2024 Christmas Bird Count
Blue Jay Greetings everyone, I thought that I would share the results from the 2024 Christmas Bird Count. At the end of the post, I made...
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Jan 272 min read
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100 years of Natural Resource Management in Indiana
Two white-tailed deer fawns Hello all! We hope that you are staying warm out there during this cold winter. Everyone here is looking...
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Jan 242 min read
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Hoping for warmer days...
Ice formations on a frozen creek. It has been very cold here on the refuge but that has not stopped work from being done. Like you saw in...
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Crawfish frog research
With the harsh winter weather and snow preventing many Refuge activities, we have devoted some time to analyzing data from the last 12...
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