Palmer Research Center for Aquatic Resources

Palmer property landscape

The Okocha Woodlands property is located in the Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands natural region in Greene County. Previously, this property was an old homestead site, used to provide for the Phillips family in the 1920s and 1930s. Inherited through generations, Mary Okocha donated this property to Purdue University with the request it would be managed and preserved for generations to come. With this being the newest FNR property, there are opportunities for research, extension, and land management to be conducted in the future.

Property Statistics

  • Acres: 80
  • Acquired: 2022

More About Palmer Research Center for Aquatic Resources

  • White oak enrichment planting in forest opening initiated – 2024

  • Kept in family for multiple generations
  • Conifer plantings created to help control soil erosion
  • Land naturally reverted back to forested land where previously grazed or lived on

Please contact the property manager for a copy of this property’s management plan.

Property Manager:
Don Carlson
Southeast-Purdue Agricultural Center (SEPAC)
4425 East 350 North
Butlerville, IN 47223
Cell: 812.798.2764
Email:carlsode@purdue.edu

Extension event over hatchery information. Photo by Phil Woolery. Extension event over hatchery information. Photo by Phil Woolery.
Presentation held in hatchery. Photo by Phil Woolery. Presentation held in hatchery. Photo by Phil Woolery.
Ariel view of Palmer Research Center for Aquatic Resources

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