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You’re listening to Eco Report for Friday, February 2, 2024. Later in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets a breakdown of some bills currently before the Indiana House and Senate in Part One of his conversation with Sam Carpenter, the new Executive Director of the Hoosier Environmental Council. And now for your environmental reports: To help Indiana schools celebrate …

HEADLINES Of Indiana’s original 20 million acres of forest, fewer than 2,000 acres of old-growth forests remain intact. Some types of interior forests are considered to be old growth if they contain trees that are more than 140 years old. Most of the sites that remain are now protected as nature preserves, and many have been selected as National Natural …