On the heels of Thursday’s announcement of the huge land acquisition, part two of the idea was announced Friday.

Governor Daniels announced that 25,600 acres of bottom lands would be purchased along the Muscatatuck River.  The land would sew together two separate areas of Jackson-Washington State Forest.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Rob Carter said in a statement:  “To have a second major land conservation initiative like Muscatatuck Bottoms launched on the heels of yesterday’s announcement about the Wabash River project makes about as strong a statement on conserving Indiana’s natural resources as anyone could imagine. This is significant.”

True.

As we have said many times before, unless you go back about 200 years, hunters and fishermen are currently living in “the good old days.”

Story Links:

Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette

Jeffersonville Evening News and Tribune

WildIndiana.com story on Sugar Creek/Wabash Purchase

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