Midwest’s Largest Block of Undisturbed Forest Targeted for Enhanced Protection

Panther Hollow, Hoosier National Forest, Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

Forest preservationists in the nation’s Heartland are again pushing Congress to nearly triple the size of a Southern Indiana wildland complex in the Hoosier National Forest, guardedly hopeful it will pass this session after narrowing failing in the last.

The Benjamin Harrison National Recreation Area and Wilderness Establishment Act would more than double the Hoosier’s Charles C. Deam Wilderness to 28,253 acres and add a 29,382-acre buffer...