The Carboniferous is named after the Coal Measures, the remains of peat formed by dense tropical wetland forests.

The wetland forests ended when the land level was raised by the pressure of the Gondwana continent against Laurussia, causing the zone of contact to be raised.

Here, you'll see a mature wetland forest.

Other features include "permanent freshwater lakes; upland hardwood forest, agricultural lands, native grass meadows and a unique, coniferous wetland forest".

During the late 1970s and 1980s, the palm garden, the wetland forest, and sand scrub beds were planted.

That is bad news for the birds, lizards, turtles and other wildlife that make the wetland forests their home.

The Kankakee River also forms the southern boundary of Porter County, delimiting an area of farm land and wetland forest.

Marshes, lakes, reservoirs, wetland forests, and medium and low gradient rivers provide important habitat for migratory waterfowl.

The Coal Measures, which give the Carboniferous its name, are the remains of peat formed by dense tropical wetland forests.

China was too far away to be affected, and there the wetland forests continued for another 50 million years, into the early Permian.