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Tt7ar 1 9 4 9 a~ j" F v 4 'k>4' . r.. k : 4 4 f f , .MRS aq F=. 4 4}4 444 44444 444 4444 F_ I '+ i III I 1 S t >Y )Y w r t r f r y ,n :a z i Y lit f, br gay r K; OUTDO( Entomologists Guard Against Spread of Insect Pests and Plant Diseases HE Division of Entomology was first that may be infested with insects or W DIANA T established by the Legislature in plant diseases may be introducing some 1907 and known at that time as the State pest. Quarantine stations established on Entomologist's Office. It is interesting to our highways is one means of preventing Vol. XVI, No. 2 Issued Monthly note that the demand for such a regula- the distribution of suspected host plant FEBRUARY, 1949 tory office was brought about by the material. This highway quarantine sta- Address all communications, Editor, Outdoor Indiana, introduction of the San Jose scale and tion has been used only once in Indiana 401 State Library Bldg., Indianapolis 9, Ind. the threatened destruction of all orchards and that was in 1927 and 1928 when SUBSCRIPTION PRICE by this pest. San Jose scale is still with stations were established to prevent the 1 Year ................. $1.00 2 Years................$1.75 us but is easily controlled with present- distribution of the European corn borer. 3 Years................$2.50 day spray chemicals and modern spray The division is charged with the in- Special Rates to Conservation Clubs equipment. spection and certification of all nursery The original law has been amended stock. All this stock, classified as nur- several times, but basically remains the sery stock, must be inspected at least same in that the public is given protec- once each year. Nursery stock covers a CONTENTS tion against the dissemination of insect wide range of plants such as fruit, shade, pests and plant diseases on nursery stock. Page ornamental and perennial stock, and BUSY ENTOMOLOGISTS ................... 1 The division is also charged with the such stock cannot be legally disposed of DISAPPEARING LAKEFRONTS ......... 2 duty of guarding against the introduc- unless it has been certified as apparently PICTURESQUE YELLOWWOOD FOREST 3 tion of new and not widely disseminated free of dangerous insects or plant dis- LINCOLN HONORED ............................ 5 plant pests. This latter duty is one that WILDLIFE STAMPS ............................. 6 eases. Many destructive pests of nur- POLLUTION FIGHT ........................... 7 the public is not too familiar with, but sery stock are widely distributed, but HUNGRY INSECTS ........................... 8 due to our laws regulating the movement this service assures the public that the UNCLE JIM ........................................ 9 of plant material and a cooperative stock is apparently free of pests when INDIANA'S PARKS OFFER ............... 10 arrangement with the U. S. Department secured from a nursery in Indiana. THE "BOWFIN" ................................. 12 of Agriculture, the introduction of many TRI-STATE HIGHWAY ..................... 13 Bee inspection is another important plant pests has been prevented and a FORT FINNEY LIVES AGAIN................ 15 duty of the division. This work is under few incipient insect outbreaks have been UNSUNG HEROES .......................... 16 the supervision of an experienced apiar- SONG BIRDS OF INDIANA.................... 19 checked. ist. Most people probably think that all THE QUESTION BOX....................... 19 The problem of preventing plant pest you have to do to get honey is to have THE EDITOR'S PAGE....................... 20 introductions is much more complicated ----- today than it was back in the horse a few colonies of bees and add a few supers from time to time. Beekeeping is Editor and buggy days. Modern transportation actually a complicated business, and to BOB HOOVER makes it much easier to transport live plant material thousands of miles with be successful the apiarist must be con- Associate Editor reasonable assurance that it will live. stantly on the job. JOAN SCHAUB The movement of such plant material, It is the duty of the bee inspectors to unless regulated, always involves a big hold the destructive bee diseases to a THE COVER risk of introducing new pests that may minimum and thus protect not only the The serene blue limestone building pictured be destructive to Indiana agriculture. honey crop, but also the crops that must on OUTDOOR INDIANA'S cover this month is In- The tourist motoring to all parts of the have insects to act as pollinizing agents diana's first state capitol building at Corydon. This shot was made by C. Molinelli of Martins- country and picking up plant material in order to get the maximum yield. ville and was a winner in a photo contest con- ducted by this magazine. Although the building today is a picture of peace and serenity, it was alive with activity as the first legislative body met there in June of EDITORIAL BOARD 1816 to frame a Constitution. As Indiana's 86th General Assembly holds HENRY F. SCHRICKER forth this month in Indianapolis and the pres- Governor ent State Capitol building gets a STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION work-out, let us Samuel C. Hadden, Chairman Jasper Jones Albert J. Wedeking Thomas B. McDonald not forget the old stone structure at INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Corydon, which has been restored Lisle Wallace, Chairman Howard Hiestand Benton J. Bloom Wm. J. Scheidler to its original state Kenneth M. Kunkel, Director and is preserved Permission for republication of any material from this issue is hereby given with a request that proper "as a memorial to credit be given and marked copies forwarded to the Editor. Responsibility for the return of unsolicited the pioneers who manuscripts and photographs is not assumed unless sender's request is accompanied by a self-addressed, established the stamped envelope. Commonwealth Published monthly at 406 State Library Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana, by the Indiana Department of of Conservation, Division of Pubic Relations. Entered as second-class matter July 7, 1947, at the post office Indiana." at Indianapolis, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879. OUTDOOR INDIANA 0 Page 1 INDIANA'S DISAPPEARING LAKE FRONTS Are Hoosiers Destined lakes provide for a roadway between the NOTIndiana long ago newspaper an editor wrote of a northernthis de- to be "Fenced Out" of lots and the lake shore, but only in a partment that many of its readers are Our Natural Lakes? few cases are such roadways improved or alarmed because of the problem of the made accessible to the public. Instead, rapidly disappearing Indiana lake shore- some have been absorbed as part of the lines still open to the public. This is a front lawn by the adjacent cottage owner. matter which has been of deep concern There are cases where such roadways in former haunts of waterfowl. The to the department for some time, as well have been constructed and the lot owners sound of the powered bulldozer replaces as to a great many conservation-minded have filled in along the shore and thus the call of the wild geese. Along the and nature-loving people. It is a prob- created a plot of ground large enough to shore on each lot of 40 or 50-foot front- lem that the public as a whole should provide for a small cottage. In the ma- age appears an alignment of buildings think about. Our natural lakes are one jority of cases the public right-of-ways ranging from shed-like structures to of the state's important assets, but they are located back of the cottages which mansions, many of questionable archi- are falling more and more under control face the lake. tectural design with no regard to the of the comparatively few. have extend- natural setting in which they have been Real estate developments from the shore The writer of the letter mentioned placed. From them emanate sounds ed a considerable distance access continued to say that private ownership originating in far-off cities that are for- on a great many lakes. To provide water's edge for cottage sites of lake front property is crowding out eign to the solitude of even a generation to the adjacent to the lake, some the public. Certainly, he adds, the few ago. From the roadway back of the which are not to the shore state parks and other beaches open to buildings the public can occasionally plats show right-of-ways groups of from six to 10, or the public are not adequate. There re- catch a glimpse of the lake between the between lake front lots. They may be only main many thousands of people who do cottages, providing a wall, a hedge or a more, enough for a path or some provide not own lake front cottages and some clothesline, filled with clothes, does not wide these right-of-ways lack even the money to rent a cottage obstruct the view. for roads but not all for a week. have been improved or even made acces- There are some lakes in Indiana that sible to the public. Adjacent lot owners Indiana has around 600 natural lakes, almost completely surrounded by are can, and in many cases have, petitioned some of which cannot be surpassed in These cottages have private cottages. to have such right-of-ways vacated. It scenic beauty. With very few exceptions piers or other boat landing facilities. In requires constant vigilance on the part of all these lakes, until a few years ago, some places the outer end of the piers public spirited individuals to prevent retained the shorelines and the surround- are built into small platforms, enclosed such action. ing marsh lands bordered by native trees by fences and provided with one or more of our lakes, according to the and shrubs with which they were en- benches from which the cottage owners On most director of the Water Resources Divi- dowed by nature.

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