Fort Wayne Nature, Wildlife and Trails

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Fort Wayne Nature, Wildlife and Trails

Wildlife, nature preserves and the trail network.

Eagle Marsh in winter, 2022. Maffa-woogly · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file

Fort Wayne Wildlife History: Animals Lost and ReturnedEvery other section of this record counts people. This one counts the other inhabitants: the deer and wolves of the first accounts, the pigeons that broke tree limbs over South Wayne, the mussels still holding on in the…15 entry pages

Fort Wayne Children's Zoo HistoryThe ZooFort Wayne has kept animals on public ground since 1952, when the city's new Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary in Franke Park opened with four monkeys, a black bear, three wildcats and an American eagle among its displays.…19 entry pages

Hiking Trails and Nature Preserves Around Fort WayneHike Trails · the foot trails and the preserves you walkFort Wayne's paved trail network — the Rivergreenway, the Pufferbelly, the towpath and the pathways — is a bicycle record as much as a walking one, and it is told in the Bike Trails chapter. This chapter is the other…

Fort Wayne Bike Trails: The Rivergreenway, the Pufferbelly and More14 entry pages

Snowmobile Trails Near Fort Wayne7 entry pages

Fort Wayne Trails: The Rivergreenway, the Towpath and the Trail NetworkTrails · The paths the city was built on, and the ones it built backFort Wayne began as a trail. The carrying place between the St. Marys River and the Little River was the reason a village, then a fort, then a city stood at the confluence at all, and every transportation age since has…12 entry pages

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Source: Fort Wayne Nature, Wildlife and Trails, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/nature-trails/

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