The Natural Heritage of Indiana Book

	Preface : Why this book?
	Acknowledgments
	Foreword: A Sense of Place
	Perspective: The Indiana That Was
1	Of Time, Rocks, and Ancient Life: Bedrock Geology	3
2	Indiana on Ice: The Late Tertiary and Ice Age History of Indiana Landscapes	15
3	The View from the Window: Physiography	28
4	Cradle of Life: Soils	45
5	Lifeblood of the Land: Water	59
6	An Endangered Natural Resource: Wetlands	67
7	Underground World: Caves	77
8	Our Changing Climate	85
9	Remembrance	101
10	In the Glacier's Wake: Patterns of Vegetation Change Following Glaciation	102
11	Origins: The Deciduous Forest	110
12	Walking in Wilderness	113
13	Nature's Recovery Act: Nothing Succeeds Like Succession	124
14	Aggressive Invaders: Exotic Plants	135
15	Indiana's Vertebrate Fauna: Origins and Change	144
16	The Natural Regions: An Introduction	159
17	Limestone Ledges and "Crawfish Flats". The Bluegrass Natural Region	161
18	Sinks, Slopes, and a Stony Disposition: The Highland Rim Natural Region	167
19	Land of the Cliff Dwellers: The Shawnee Hills Natural Region	172
20	A Taste of the South: The Southern Bottomlands Natural Region	177
21	Sandhills and Old Till: The Southwestern Lowlands Natural Region	184
22	Where Tallgrasses Waved: The Grand Prairie Natural Region	189
23	Forested Swell and Swale: The Central Till Plain Natural Region	195
24	The Bed of a Glacial Lake: The Black Swamp Natural Region	201
25	Half Land, Half Water: The Northern Lakes Natural Region	203
26	Dunes, Swales, and Glacial Ridges: The Northwestern Morainal Natural Region	209
27	The Southern Tip of the Big Sea Waters: The Lake Michigan Natural Region	214
28	Waters in Motion: The Big Rivers Natural Region	217
29	A Diversity of Forms	225
30	Reproductive Strategies	233
31	A Wealth of Spores: Non-Flowering Plants	235
32	Wildflowers and Spring	253
33	The Seed Strategy: Higher Plants - An Introduction	255
34	The Life and Times of the Tuliptree	257
35	The Diversity of Indiana's Flowering Plants	265
36	What's the Use?	279
37	The Small and the Many: Invertebrates	291
38	An Abundance of Insects	301
39	Beneath the Water's Surface: The Fishes	311
40	Creepers, Crawlers, and Hoppers: Amphibians and Reptiles	319
41	Wings across the Sky: Birds of Indiana	329
42	Our Native Mammals	341
43	Biogeography: Of Organisms, Habitats,and Time	351
44	Change: The Essence of Nature	359
45	Prehistoric Peoples of Indiana	361
46	The Wave of Settlement	369
47	History of Public Conservation in Indiana	383
48	Names on the Land	393
49	Search and Study	399
50	Spreading the Word	402
51	Protection Beginnings	407
52	Inventory and Preservation	415
53	Stewards of Nature	425
54	Whence and Whither: A Question of Priorities and Values	433
55	Connections: The Humans-Landscape Linkage	436
56	The Indiana of Today: Its Background and Challenge	439
57	The Future of Natural Indiana: Can We Imagine It? Guide It?	443
58	Overview	450
A	Public Lands in Indiana	453
B	Species Extirpated from Indiana	455
C	Species Endangered in Indiana	457
	D. Glossary	459
	E. Suggested Readings	464
	Contributors	467
	Index	471