News & Blog

  1. Home
  2. Blog

Imagine: Peace Farm, Jann Prince’s story

“Places are…defined less by unique locations, landscapes, and communities than by the focusing of experiences and intentions onto a particular setting.” — E. C. Relph, “Place and Placelessness,” The Natural ...

  • 09/20/2019
  • 1 Comment(s)

Taking Responsibility: Removing a low-head dam on Cedar Creek

“What did the fish say when he was swimming upstream and hit concrete?” “Dam!” Dr. Jerry Sweeten, ACRES board member, retired Manchester University biology professor and expert on low-head dam ...

  • 09/03/2019
  • 0 Comment(s)

A tale of two disturbances: surprises in land management

To keep pace with our growing acreage, ACRES has invested more time and resources in managing, restoring and enhancing land. In late winter and early spring, we put our new ...

  • 08/21/2019
  • 1 Comment(s)

Summer growth: mimicking our land’s peak performance

Dear Friends, We Midwesterners have a reputation of being hard workers. I think this is partly because we mimic the land we live on. We follow the lead of the ...

  • 08/14/2019
  • 0 Comment(s)

ACRES completes 500-acre acquisition phase on Cedar Creek, launches storytelling project

ACRES completes 500-acre acquisition phase on Cedar Creek, launches storytelling project HUNTERTOWN, Ind., August 5, 2019 – On completion of a 500-acre acquisition phase on Cedar Creek, ACRES Land Trust ...

  • 08/05/2019
  • 0 Comment(s)

ACRES welcomes Reena Ramos (back) to the team

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau, a journal entry dated Aug. 5, 1851 ACRES invites you to welcome Reena Ramos ...

  • 07/11/2019
  • 2 Comment(s)

We’re so much more: seeing beyond ACRES trails

Each time ACRES acquires a new property, we send “preserve postcards” to our members. Like birth announcements, the postcards welcome new land to our trust and thank our members for ...

  • 07/02/2019
  • 2 Comment(s)

Eby Bog to thrive with permanent protection by ACRES Land Trust

BRISTOL, Ind., June 18, 2019 – ACRES Land Trust recently acquired a 23 acre addition to Eby Bog, north of Bristol, bringing a total of 33 acres, or about 95% ...

  • 06/18/2019
  • 0 Comment(s)

Nearly 60 years: celebrating land today

Dear friends, Each day is a victory for ACRES. Life thrives on 7,000+ acres of land because our members, and members before them, chose to acquire each of these acres. ...

  • 06/06/2019
  • 0 Comment(s)

Welcome 2019 Summer Land Management Interns!

Many thanks to the Olive B. Cole Foundation and the Lilly Endowment internship support through Manchester University for supporting the ACRES summer land management program. ACRES staff look forward to ...

  • 05/30/2019
  • 0 Comment(s)

All Categores