Roy Whistler Wildlife Area
This preserve encompasses a high quality sand barrens habitat located near the Granville Bridge west of West Lafayette and north of West Point, IN. The property has the flowering rare hairy puccoon and forked bluecurls. With the adjacent Granville Sand Barrens property, the habitat provides a home to deer, turkeys, wood ducks, migrating woodcocks and the six-lines racerunner among other wildlife.
In 2010 NICHES in conjunction with Arbor America planted 8 acres of 3,000 trees including varieties of Black Walnut, White Oak, Pin Oak and Kentucky Coffee Tree.
Although the properties have no established trail, NICHES (the property’s owner and steward) encourages wandering exploration on this 80 acre combined tract.
