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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Multimedia Presentations

Discover Indiana Dunes are short videocasts in which a park ranger shares interesting stories and information about Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Current videocast are listed below, and more are sure to come. Check back often for the latest installment of Discover Indiana Dunes.


 

 
Park Ranger standing in sand dune with snow
Visit Your Indiana Dunes
Videocast - Windows Media (320 X 240 px, 3,691 KB)
Duration - 1 minute 56 seconds

Join Ranger Jean-Pierre Anderson as he introduces the Discover Indiana Dunes video series.

 

 
 
Park Ranger opening glass door to a building
Inside the new Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center
Videocast - Windows Media (320 X 240 px 3,108 KB)
Duration - 1 minute 38 second

Take an inside tour of the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center that opened Fall 2006 with Park Ranger Kipton Walton.


 
sandy beach in the foreground and lots of ice covering a large lake

Winter Beach
Videocast - Windows Media 320 X 240 px 8,930 KB
                 MP4    13,858 KB

Duration - 2 minutes 19 seconds

The winter beach is an exciting place to visit, hike along the beach and see shelf ice safely.


 
Close-up of flames burning a prairie  

Did You Know?
Without fire, there could be no prairie at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Non-prairie plant species would crowd out native prairie grasses. These rare grasslands are maintained through periodic controlled burns.

Last Updated: December 04, 2008 at 16:21 EST