Gene Stratton-Porter, born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.
Gene Stratton-Porter
One of Stratton-Porter's early nature photographs of owls, one of her favorite birds to study and photograph.
Limberlost State Historic Site, western side
Gene's Cabin at Wildflower Woods is the present-day Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site on Sylvan Lake in Rome City, Noble County, Indiana.
The Limberlost Swamp in the eastern part of the present-day U.S. state of Indiana was a large, nationally known wetlands region with streams that flowed into the Wabash River. It originally covered 13,000 acres (53 km2) of present-day Adams and Jay counties. Parts of it were known as the Loblolly Marsh, based on a word by local Native Americans for the sulphur smell of the marsh gas. The wetlands had mixed vegetation and supported a rich biodiversity, significant for local and migrating birds and insects, as well as other animals and life.
Deilephila lineata - Illustration of the Book "Moths of the Limberlost"
Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve
