Journey With Nature

Some Hoosiers may not have the time or means to take such a trip, but you don't have to go far to admire deeply cut gorges, sheet rock walls and plunging waterfalls. Clifty Falls State Park near Madison in Jefferson County has all that and more!

It may be winter, but the fish are still biting. When Indiana's lakes and ponds have frozen over, anglers who can bear the cold go ice fishing.

It may surprise some Hoosiers to learn that the American badger is native to our state.

The Black Locust tree is a troublesome invasive species as it poses a danger to Indiana's fragile prairies and savannas.

The rugged character and lack of established trails make hiking at Hardin Ridge challenging but rewarding.

Your old computer or television set may be junk, but it certainly doesn't belong in the trash!

The Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) is unlike most of its kind. Unlike the majority of its species, this owl is partially diurnal or active during the day.

To burn or not to burn? Land stewards must ask this important question when managing natural areas both big and small.

The Asian Longhorned Beetle has destroyed tens of thousands of hardwood trees in the United States, and luckily not a single one in Indiana.Unfortunately this doesn't mean that these killer beetles aren't headed our way.

The muddy Muscatatuck River drains over a thousand square miles and meanders though a sparsely populated agricultural community in southeastern Indiana. It is also the the largest least-fragmented complex of bottomland forest in the Midwest.

Conservation groups including The Nature Conservancy are working together to protect the water quality of river as well as the species that rely on it. Early this year, these organization gained a great ally in protecting the Wabash.

Hedgeballs, horse apples and green brains - the fruits of the Osage orange tree is called many things. When stumbled upon in nature, not many know exactly what is though it certainly makes quite an impression.

The ever-so-popular muppet, Kermit the Frog, was modeled after the American green tree frog (Hyla cinerea) that is native to most of southeastern United Stated as well as Indiana.

Crown vetch sounds like a plant fit for a king, but this invasive plant is more of a royal pain in the you-know-what. Unfortunately landowners who plant this pretty perennial aren’t aware of its insidious ways until it is too late.

Some fish fly and some birds fish. The osprey is such a bird. The osprey is a migratory, medium-sized raptor (or bird of prey) that makes its home in Indiana.