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ACRES Gift Guide & Seasonal Offer | $25 gift memberships get free Preserve Guide

Now through December 31, all $25 gift membership recipients will also receive an ACRES Preserve Guide. Looking for a unique, local, lasting gift to give? Through December 31, for $25, ...

11/13/2017
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Wet, Wild and Rare | Zoo Visitors Help Conserve Local Habitat

While the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is now closed for the season, visitors this summer cast votes at the Kids4Nature Kiosk or rounded up their total at the Wild Things ...

11/08/2017
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Protecting land with pioneer spirit | Sam Ropchan

* This event information is outdated as the article originally ran in 2017 This Saturday, 10 am, ACRES hosts a hike at Ropchan Memorial, 6830 N. 750 W, Orland, IN ...

11/01/2017
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Home in the Heartland | Inhabiting your place with local artists and writers Bonnie Fortune, Brett Bloom and family

In 2015, Brett Bloom and his wife, Bonnie Fortune, began posting Instagram photos of their family’s ACRES hikes. Their fun, frequent images and notes reveal deep connections to place and ...

10/25/2017
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Families’ love of special places protects forested acres on city’s growing north side

Fast-growing parts of Fort Wayne have special natural places, too, and ACRES Land Trust celebrates an addition to its Emanuel M. Popp Nature Preserve that adds a fifth chapter to ...

10/16/2017
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Add to this poem | Wing Haven. Year Zero of 200.

Earlier this year, ACRES Land Trust kicked off our 200-year Ecological Reflections art and science initiative, curating works on Wing Haven, an ACRES preserve north of Angola. The initiative will commission ...

10/13/2017
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Natural Indiana | A quest and vision from ACRES member Dick Loney

To date, long-time ACRES member and volunteer Dick Loney has seen roughly 467 nature preserves in Indiana. He’s also spent plenty of time on home turf, helping tend ACRES preserves. ...

10/11/2017
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Cedar Creek | View from the Canopy

Editor’s note from Carol Roberts, ACRES Quarterly editor and board vice president: Tom was my friend, neighbor, mentor in the natural world. I cared more about nature after seeing it ...

10/02/2017
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Fall back and slow down | Hiking local

Every fall we all set our clocks back, but we each approach the extra hour differently, some sleeping in, others simply appreciating the luxury of extra “found” time. I see ...

09/27/2017
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Time is ripe to hike down yonder to the paw paw patch

Deer and hikers are foraging deep into ACRES Land Trust woodlands across the area to gather … tropical fruit. Yup, the paw paws are ripe and dropping sweetly. Ripe paw ...

09/20/2017
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