Fountain County

Pecan Basin: Cates-Clawson Reserve

A 155-acre property edging the Wabash River in southwestern Fountain County that includes 3/8 of a mile of river frontage with mature floodplain forest. The Wabash River floodplain fields, previously in corn/ bean production when NICHES purchased the land, were reforested in 2001.

The restored forest offers a natural buffer along the edge of the river, while providing habitat for native flora and fauna.

North of the parking lot…

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County: Fountain

Shawnee Bottoms

A wonderfully diverse piece of west-central Indiana landscapes  located in Fountain County along the middle Wabash River, a quarter mile north of Portland Arch, a National Natural Landmark, Shawnee Bottoms is NICHES largest property covering 459 acres evenly balanced between floodplain aka ‘bottoms’ and upland oak woodland.

Shawnee Bottoms features over a mile of frontage on the Wabash River. A section of the old Wabash and Erie Canal, later converted…

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County: Fountain

Snyder Marshall Woods

Snyder Marshall Woods protects mature upland woods, seeps and a stream that is working its way to the Wabash River. The woods are home to white oaks, tulip poplar, beech and wonderful display of wildflowers.

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County: Fountain

Whistler Hare Woods

Whistler Hare Woods lies on the south bank of Big Shawnee Creek’s tumble and flow on its way to the Wabash River. The banks of the creek are wooded and rise steeply with exposures of sandstone bedrock faces to over 90’ above the creek. The dry acid soils on the bluffs are home to eastern white pine, white oaks, partridge berries and witch hazel.

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County: Fountain