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Parks department building trail at Pine Knob


HOWE — It’s going to get a lot easier to see all of the plants and animals that make Pine Knob Park just east of Howe the amazing place that it is, as work crews work toward completing a new walking trail through the wildest part of the park.
LaGrange County Parks and Recreation Department construction crews are extending the park’s existing trail through the park’s oak savanna, upland prairies and the Duff Lake wetland.
The at-points elevated walking trail will allow visitors to walk through the park’s fen, a delicate wetland environment, without disturbing or destroying it. A fen is a unique micro-environment that is now considered to be extremely rare. Fens are islands of biomass that float more or less on groundwater, making them spongy to walk on. Fens make up less than 1% of the total surface of the Earth and can be found in Michigan and Indiana. ....

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