Released Oct. 1, 2025, this 8.5×11, full color coffee table book chronicles the remarkable life and career of Southern Indiana forest activist Andy Mahler and one leg of his family’s two-generation journey from Nazi Vienna in the 1930s to a life surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the 2020s.
Along the way, Andy helped organize concerned citizens in Indiana and the Central Hardwood region and ultimately got off-road vehicles banned on the Hoosier National and commercial timber harvesting shut down on millions of acres of national forest land, from Missouri to Pennsylvania to Alabama.
The 120-page book also profiles the 204,000-acre Hoosier National’s 350-million year tectonic migration, from the Amazon Basin to today’s Southern Indiana hill country, and its 15,000-year human history, from the Ice Age to the early 21st century.
Based on 40 years of conversations and explorations with Andy, the book is written by Steven Higgs and illustrated with more than 100 of his photographs captured over a half century.
Click here to order a copy of Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: The Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves.
PHOTO ALBUMS
- Sierra Club Hike, Lazy Black Bear, Young’s Creek, Hoosier National Forest
- Vintage Family Photos
- Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National
BLOGS
- Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National’ Available 9/26; Public Events in October, November
- Pre-order Copies of Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National
- Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National Book Unveiling August 15 in French Lick
- The Hoosier National Forest’s Buffalo Springs: Andy Mahler’s Last Stand
