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Lydick Bog acquired 2016, dedicated a state nature preserve January 2019; county parks record, 2026
The county's bog ground is held by a land trust and a county park, both at pointer. Lydick Bog Nature Preserve, in St. Joseph County, is recorded by the DNR nature-preserve system at 176.46 acres, owned by the Shirley Heinze Land Trust — one of the last sphagnum bog habitats in Indiana, tamarack-and-bog ground of the kind the checklist names. The Trust's own course prints beside it: acquired in 2016 at about 178 acres, dedicated an Indiana State Nature Preserve in January 2019, the Trust's first project outside Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties; a later addition of 93.78 acres brought the protected total to 271 acres, with about a mile of further trail and a link toward the Indiana Dinosaur Museum trail system (Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, June 2026; ribbon-cutting May 2026). The two acreage figures — the DNR record's 176.46 and the post-addition 271 — print unmerged as conflict NEW-D-1 in this lane's accounting. Spicer Lake Nature Preserve, a county park, carries about four miles of trail including the Glacier Flats Trail at a 1.5-mile loop and a boardwalk of half a mile round trip to the kettle lakes. Neither bog is in Union Township; both are the county ground where the township's hikers meet bog country.