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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first nature preserve
There are clues that provide a glimpse of an early Indiana replete with natural beauty and variety. Places of expansive forests, magnificent lakes and wetlands, and endless prairies where no tree existed for as far as the eye could see. In 1967, the General Assembly passed the Nature Preserves Act, creating the Division of Nature Preserves. Two years later, the first preserve was dedicated. Forty years later there are 225 nature preserves.
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