Christmas arrived on Wednesday for area sportsmen as Governor Mitch Daniels announced a mega-land gift barely five miles southwest of Michigan City.
The 1,250 acre state prison farm in Porter County is being transferred to the Department of Natural Resources to establish Indiana’s largest game bird habitat area.
The land, valued at more than $5 million, was scheduled for public auction in January but the governor, noting the size and uniqueness of the property, ordered it set aside for conservation.
“This is our first big opportunity to expand our upland game preserves and to bring our large-scale conservation program to Northwest Indiana,” Daniels said in an e-mail release.
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Sounds great this state needs to a lot of work on upland game management, we still have not recovered from the 70s