For ACRES Winter Photo Contest, we challenged you to take to the trails and capture photos that celebrate our forever-protected places. Your submissions truly reflected the beauty of these natural ...
ACRES protects local land for the benefit of all – today and forever. Planned giving helps ensure that the places you cared about and worked for in your lifetime are ...
What made you want to support ACRES?I always thought there were no good places to hike here in northern Indiana, but a few years ago, I found out we had ...
Thanks to member and volunteer support, ACRES offers many places to explore throughout our region. Each preserve is unique, featuring diverse landscapes. If you’re looking for some new-to-you trails, why ...
ACRES Land Trust owns and protects over 7,300 acres of natural and working lands in northeast Indiana, southern Michigan and northwest Ohio. This work is driven by our mission to ...
By Chris Fairfield This article is part of a series highlighting preserves where ACRES will retire trails as part of our comprehensive plan to update visitor amenities at nature preserves. For a ...
A Letter from the Executive Director In 2021, ACRES Land Trust began referring to our work in the field as “stewardship” rather than “land management.” In this letter, ACRES Executive ...
Nature provides us with countless gifts — fresh air, clean water, beautiful places to explore, improved wellbeing. Looking for a way to give back? Here are three simple yet meaningful ways ...
ACRES nature preserves provide researchers and citizen scientists with opportunities to study the natural world around us. By allowing scientists to work on ACRES properties, we gain knowledge from their ...
Local artist Gwen Gutwein has gifted ACRES with four oil paintings depicting the changing seasons at Mackel Nature Preserve in Allen County’s Cedar Creek Corridor. The paintings capture the confluence ...
