Lake Country Ecoregion
Ecoregions: Lake Country
Lake Country Ecoregion shown in Purple
The Lake Country ecoregion is characterized by many pothole lakes, ponds, marshes, bogs, and clear streams. The well-drained end moraines (rock and sediment deposited at the further extent of a glacier) and kames (mounds of sand and gravel deposited in a retreating glacier and left behind when the glacier melts) once supported oak-hickory forests whereas wetter areas had beech forests or northern swamp forests; the very poorly-drained kettles (lakes or ponds left behind when partially buried blocks of ice melted after the glaciers retreated) had tamarack swamp, cattail-bulrush marshes, or sphagnum bogs. Marshes and woodland remain, but farming dominates, and many lakes are surrounded by closely-packed residences and lake cottages. Source: US EPA
Natural Areas in this ecoregion include:
Bender Nature Preserve (Noble County)Burton Nature Preserve (Fulton County)
Chain 'O Lakes State Park (Noble County)
Crooked Lake (Whitley County)
Dygert Nature Preserve (Whitley County)
Greider's Woods (Kosciusko County)
Lonidaw Nature Preserve (Noble County)
Loon Lake Nature Preserve (Steuben County)
McClue Nature Reserve (Steuben County)
Merry Lea (Noble County)
Oppenheim Woods (Kosciusko County)
Pokagon State Park (Steuben County)
Robb Hidden Canyon Nature Preserve (Steuben County)
Ropchan Memorial Nature Preserve (Steuben County)
Wildwood Nature Preserve (Kosciusko County)
Wing Haven Nature Preserve (Steuben County)
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