Nature has reclaimed an old coal mine in southern Indiana, and state environmentalists have collaborated to ensure the land will belong to all Hoosiers.
Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources, working with the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape initiative and The Conservation Fund, have acquired nearly 4,000 acres of diverse habitat that will become the Busseron Creek Fish and Wildlife Area in Sullivan County.
“I am really excited to have this property and can’t wait to see how it turns out,” said Dan Eckstein, the southwest public lands supervisor with DNR’s Division of Fish and Wildlife…