BRYANT, Ind. (AP) — A northeastern Indiana marsh that provided the backdrop
for “A Girl of the Limberlost” and other novels by author Gene
Stratton-Porter will become Indiana’s 250th state-designated nature
preserve.
Loblolly Marsh in northern Jay County currently is wetland preserve
established in 1997. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says its
formal designation as a nature preserve goes before a state panel in
September.
Gov. Mitch Daniels went to the 440-acre site about 40 miles south of Fort
Wayne for the announcement Tuesday. He says nature preserve status for
Loblolly Marsh is fitting given Stratton-Porter’s place in the history of
conservation.
Farmers drained the marsh from 1888 to 1910, but crop losses from periodic
flooding plagued the landowners, and restoration of the wetlands began in
the early 1990s.
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