Alan McPherson

Nature Walks on Indiana's Northern Lake Plains Alan McPherson

This feet-first field guide explores the best of the natural areas of Northern Indiana's Lake Country. Nature walkers can catch a glimpse of what the landscape looked like before settlement: a myriad of bogs, fens, springs, streams, swamp forest, marsh, wet meadows, upland forest, savanna, tallgrass prairie, ponds and lakes that attract a diversity of wildlife and display unique plant communities. Glacial landforms include knobs, kame, kettle lakes, eskers, moraines and lacustrine plains, remnants of the last ice age thousands of years ago. Nature Walks on Indiana's Northern Lake Plains is a valuable handy resource as you journey to these natural areas of scenic beauty. This compact guide includes numerous color images, informative text and detailed location and trail maps.