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Article: PROJECT TO TURN BACK BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- September 10, 1995
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Back to nature (ADRIAN JOHNSON/Post-Tribune)
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Cattails reached above Pam Benjamin's head as she waded through shoe- sucking mud.
Soon she reached the site she was looking for: a patch of sedge grass, surrounded by encroaching cattails and reed canary grasses.
The sedge meadow segment there, she said, is one of the few remnants of a wetland type that thrived in this area before Beverly Shores was developed, before large sections of the Grand Marsh that stretched from Gary to Michigan City were ditched and drained.
But within a few years, Benjamin - a botanist on the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore staff - hopes to ...