Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge

Pros: Easily accessible, just two miles east of I-65; beautiful all year; well-stocked bookstore; family-oriented events planned for the whole year.
Cons: The machinery used to trim branches along the roads tears, rip, twists, and mutilates the trees and bushes. THIS is ugly!

As I write this, winter has hunkered down in south central Indiana, spreading a cloak of white across the cornfields. They look like two-toned corduroy, with the tan stubble of last summer's crop poking through the white mantle in even, parallel...