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Deal adds 1,000 acres to SW Indiana wildlife refuge
Updated: Tuesday, 02 Oct 2012, 12:38 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 02 Oct 2012, 12:38 PM EDT
OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (AP) - Two large sections of a wildlife refuge in southwestern Indiana will be joined together with the purchase of more than 1,000 acres of former coal company property.
The nonprofit Sycamore Land Trust is spending nearly $2 million to buy the land that will be incorporated into the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge.
Refuge manager Bill McCoy tells the Evansville Courier & Press that acquiring the land near Oakland City had been a top priority since Peabody Energy offered it for sale in 2002.
The Bloomington-based land trust says the site is home to several endangered and threatened species, such as the Indiana bat, river otters and bobcats.
With the new purchase, the Patoka River refuge some 30 miles north of Evansville will grow to about 8,000 acres.
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