Indiana Natural History: Books

Great place to get in-depth treatment of terms

Maybe more info than you want

Box with various pamphlets. Doesn’t cover all Indiana counties.

Middle and high school level

sect. 1. Water resources and climate. --
sect. 2. Mineral resources. --
sect. 3. Forest, wildlife and recreational resources. --
sect. 4. Transportation --
sect. 5. Manpower resources --
sect. 6. Agriculture in the Illinois economy.

Visitor guidelines -- Key Conservancy terms and acronyms -- About the Nature Conservancy -- Healing hoosier landscapes -- Stewardship -- Indiana preserve map -- Indiana preserves -- Anderson Falls -- Barker Woods -- Beanblossom Bottoms -- Bicentennial Woods -- Big Walnut -- Black Rock Barrens -- Bluffs of Beaver Bend -- Cedar Bluffs -- Chelsea Flatwoods -- Cline Lake Fen -- Conrad Station Savanna -- Douglas Woods -- Fall Creek gorge -- Fawn River Fen -- Fern Cliff -- German Methodist cemetery prairie -- Goose Pond Cypress Slough -- Green's Bluff -- Guthrie Woods -- Hall Woods -- Hardin Ridge and Brock-Sampson -- Harrison County glades -- Hitz-Rhodehamel -- Holley Savanna -- Hoosier Prairie -- Kankakee Sands project -- Kramer original woods -- Manitou Island wetlands -- Marsh Lake complex -- Merry Lea -- Moraine Nature Preserve -- Mossy Point -- NIPSCO Savanna -- Ober sand Savanna -- Olin Lake -- Orangeville rise and Wesley Chapel Gulf of the lost river -- Pennywort Cliffs -- Pine Hills -- Pipewort Pond (William L. Lieber Memorial Preserve) -- Point township complex -- Portland Arch -- Ritchey Woods -- Saunders Woods -- Shooting Star Cliffs -- Shrader-Weaver Woods -- Spinn Prairie -- Swamp Angel -- Tefft Savanna complex -- Thousand Acre Woods -- Tolleston Strand Plain -- Trail Creek Fen -- Twin Creek Valley and Henderson Park -- Whip-poor-Will Woods -- Zeigler Woods -- Common species and corresponding Latin names.

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Preface : why this book? / Foreword : a sense of place / Perspective : the Indiana that was / Of time, rocks, and ancient life : bedrock geology / Indiana on ice : the late tertiary and ice age history of Indiana landscapes / The view from the window : physiography / Cradle of life : soils / Lifeblood of the land : water / An endangered natural resource : wetlands / Underground world : caves / Our changing climate / Remembrance / In the glacier's wake : patterns of vegetation change following glaciation / Origins : the deciduous forest / Walking in wilderness / Nature's recovery act : nothing succeeds like succession / Aggressive invaders : exotic plants / Indiana's vertebrate fauna : origins and change / The natural regions : an introduction / Limestone ledges and "crawfish flats" : the bluegrass natural region / Sinks, slopes, and a stony disposition : the highland rim natural region / Land of the cliff dwellers : the Shawnee Hills natural region / A taste of the South : the southern bottomlands natural region / Sandhills and old till : the southwestern lowlands natural region / Where tallgrasses waved : the Grand Prairie natural region / Forested swell and swale : the Central Till Plain natural region / The bed of a glacial lake : the Black Swamp natural region / Half land, half water : the northern lakes natural region / Dunes, swales, and glacial ridges : the northwestern morainal natural region / The southern tip of the big-sea waters : the Lake Michigan natural region / Waters in motion : the big rivers natural region / A diversity of forms / Reproductive strategies / A wealth of spores : non-flowering plants / Wildflowers and spring / The seed strategy : higher plants, an introduction / The life and times of the tuliptree / The diversity of Indiana's flowering plants / What's the use? / The small and the many : invertebrates / An abundance of insects / Beneath the water's surface : the fishes / Creepers, crawlers, and hoppers : amphibians and reptiles / Wings across the sky : birds of Indiana / Our native mammals / Biogeography : of organisms, habitats, and time / Change : the essence of nature / Prehistoric peoples of Indiana / The wave of settlement / History of public conservation in Indiana / Names on the land / Search and study / Spreading the word / Protection beginnings / Inventory and preservation / Stewards of nature / Whence and whither : a question of priorities and values / Connections : the humans-landscape linkage / The Indiana of today : its background and challenge / The future of natural Indiana : can we imagine it? Guide it? / Overview / Supplementary materials : Public lands in Indiana -- Species extirpated from Indiana -- Species endangered in Indiana.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

The Great Forces -- In Quality Unexcelled: Prairie Types and Composition -- In Quality Diminished: Prairie Settlement and Conservation -- The Nearly Vanished Transitions: Shrublands and Savannas -- Witnesses to History: Forests -- Of Two Worlds: Wetlands -- The Last Wilderness: Lake Michigan -- Approaching the Way: Rivers and Small Lakes -- Casualties of a Modern World: The Marshes of the Kankakee and Calumet -- Lake Michigan's Rim: Beaches, Dunes, and Bluffs -- Many More Than We Know: Insects -- Survivors in Trouble: Reptiles and Amphibians -- Of Extinction and Resurrection: Passenger Pigeon, Prairie Chicken, Sandhill Crane, and Colonial Nesters -- For Everything There Is a Season: Birds through the Year -- Figures in Fur: Mammals -- Entering the New Century : Prospects for the Future.

Indiana Academy of Science. American Midland Naturalist.
Introduction : the Indiana of 1816 -- Bedrock geology / Ice and land / Physiography / Soils / Lakes and streams / Ground water / Caves / Mineral resources / Climate / Bioclimate / Algae / Fleshy fungi / Plant diseases / Lower green land plants / Higher plants / Plant communities / Limnology / Free living invertebrates other than insects / Animal parasites / The origin and composition of the insect fauna / Insect pests of forest, farm and home / Cave fauna / Fishes / Amphibians and reptiles / Birds / Mammals / Cultural history of the Indians / Racial history of the Indians / Changing patterns in agriculture / Changing patterns in population / Forestry / State parks / Perspective

Bloomington, IN : Quarry Books/Indiana University Press

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3rd Floor Special Collections