In the late 1700s, and prior to general European settlement, Indiana had an estimated 5.6 million acres of what would now be termed wetlands. At the time, they were considered the bane of farmers who ...

While driving around this past week, the idea for this article came to me. Maybe it was the standing water or just staring at the muck soil south of town. Nappanee is a part of the Great Kankakee ...

This column originally ran Aug. 10, 2014. We bring it back since the Kankakee has just gained federal status as a National Water Trail. Once the chatty group of paddlers had left, I crept back onto ...

A friend of mine recently asked me what the difference was in a wetland being called a marsh or a swamp. I told him it’s hard to say what makes one different from the other. Both are wet areas that ...

Nature is putting on a big flower show over the next few weeks on a little corner of the Kankakee River, ripe with marshy inlets, that feels like what the Grand Kankakee Marsh must have been before it ...