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Indiana DNR restoration record, via DNR and Purdue carriers, read 2026
Both of Chapman's lost upland species returned in the twentieth century, by deliberate restocking. The deer arc: the last known wild deer in Indiana was killed in 1893, near Red Cloud in Knox County, the species' last stand having been in the Kankakee region; restocking began in 1934, and 296 deer were released between 1934 and 1942 from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina stock — mostly into the southern hills, the northern counties rebuilding partly by immigration from Michigan. The first modern season came in 1951, with about 1,600 deer harvested; deer now stand in every Indiana county. The turkey arc: extirpated by the early 1900s, restored by the release of 2,795 wild-trapped turkeys at 185 sites between 1956 and 2004, and now present in all ninety-two counties. Neither arc names a Union Township release site in the carriers read; the township's deer and turkeys arrived as the county populations rebuilt, and the arcs print at state size with that boundary stated.