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1880 – November 2026
Four animals left this county's record and came back into it; the park is where their return is easiest to see. The arcs, as the South Bend build dates them at county strength: deer, a rarity in Chapman's telling, restored to a standing herd; wild turkey, gone by the new century, restored by release; river otter, out by 1942, back by spread; and beaver, the fur trade's first casualty, returned as the park's engineer. At township strength the modern end of each arc is visible on park ground in the carriers read: the Indiana DNR and Visit South Bend Mishawaka accounts of Potato Creek name white-tailed deer along the forest edge, wild turkey — a mother turkey and her young in visitor accounts the park's own pages carry — and beavers among the lake and creek's working animals, with sandhill cranes, raccoons and opossums in the same lists. The release dates, release sites and first-return dates for Liberty Township itself were not found in the carriers reached; the county arcs govern, and the township release record stands as a named gap, its settler the Indiana DNR's restoration files for deer, turkey and otter.