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EYE ON CONSERVATION

or thousands of years, southern Indiana was home to vast stretches of open-​canopy oak-hickory forests. That was great for birds like the Prairie Warbler and Red-headed Woodpecker. But starting about 100 years ago, humans began to suppress the fires

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