• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

    Indiana Dunes

    National Lakeshore Indiana

Maple Sugar Time Gallery 2002

  • Collection buckets are hung from spiles drilled into maple trees for sap
    Maple Sugar Time
    39 Photos

Did You Know?

a sea of tall grasses and catails in a marsh setting and trees in the background

Cowles Bog is not a true bog but rather a fen because it has an underground water source. This water source has contact with limestone bedrock, making the fen’s water slightly alkaline. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is restoring a portion of this fen.