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Jan 312 min read
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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bigoaksfriendsgroup
Jan 302 min read
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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bigoaksfriendsgroup
Jan 282 min read
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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bigoaksfriendsgroup
Jan 272 min read
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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bigoaksfriendsgroup
Jan 242 min read
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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bigoaksfriendsgroup
Jan 221 min read
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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bigoaksfriendsgroup
Jan 172 min read
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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