PHOTO ALBUM: Deam Wilderness — Terrill Ridge Trail

The Terrill Ridge Trail offers a perfect microcosm of the Deam Wilderness human history.

Within the Hoosier National Forest’s four-mile, in-and-out trek lie examples of the landscape’s century-plus relations with humankind: a pioneer homesite and family cemetery, a fire tower, and a wildlife pond originally constructed a half century or so ago to support the reintroduction of wildlife.

I walked to the pond – somehow missed the cemetery – for some reconnaissance before an upcoming Limestone Post Revisiting the Deam piece with Teena Ligman to discuss the very subject. Teena was the U.S. Forest Service’s public information officer as far back as my newspaper days in the late 80s and early 90s.

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PROJECT: Back to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness: A Half Century Later