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Equipment and Facilities

Various tools and devices from our equipment inventory may be borrowed to use for research and teaching activities at the IU Research and Teaching Preserve (RTP). Maps are also available. A shelter house and a field laboratory are located on the Griffy Woods property.

Please submit the online reservation form to reserve the shelter house and/or field lab. Contact the Preserve Manager at 812-855-8742 or preserve@indiana.edu for information about equipment, maps, and facilities use.

Griffy Shelter House
Griffy Shelter House


Available equipment includes:

  • Binoculars
  • Break bars
  • Buckets
  • Clamps
  • Clinometer
  • Compass
  • Crimp
  • Digital scale (20 lb)
  • Electronic caliper
  • Flags
  • Forestry helmet/ear protectors
  • Garden rakes
  • GPS units
  • Headlamps
  • Jon boats (14-foot, 4-6 person capacity) with oars
  • Ladders
  • Life jackets
  • PVC pipes to mark plots
  • Post hole diggers
  • Rain pants
  • Rakes
  • Pulaski
  • Ropes
  • Scoop shovel
  • Aluminum animal boxes
  • Chalkboard
  • Flags
  • Shovels
  • Tape measure (long distance)
  • Trash tongs
  • Water carriers

USGS quad maps of the area as well as trail maps for the IU RTP properties are available.



Revised: June 26, 2009


IU RTP home page: http://www.indiana.edu/~preserve/
Comments: preserve@indiana.edu
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