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Tom and Jane Dustin built a legacy from this home.

“Tom and Jane Dustin built a legacy from this home,” the bold headline at the top of the commemorative panel reads. As you stand among the tall trees, listening to ...

  • 10/10/2018
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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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Revisiting ‘Conservation Today’

What would change if we understood natural lands as more important to us than electricity and cell phones, as crucial to us as clean water and air? Dear Friends, While ...

  • 08/22/2017
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ACRES Land Trust instrumental in bold 50-year legacy of Indiana’s Nature Preserves Act

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Indiana’s Nature Preserves Act that protects more than 50,000 acres of Hoosier natural heritage in 70 of the state’s 92 counties.  The legislation created ...

  • 03/23/2017
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Kokiwanee, 1941 farmland to nature preserve

In my recent Letter from the Executive Director, I write about how land can produce a wide variety of products. I make the claim that when compared to nature; we are ...

  • 02/22/2017
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ACRES Log 2: Roots

by Megan CooperOutreach InternUniversity of Saint Francis You should know ACRES Land Trust is run from a house. Just a residence-designed plot of wooded land. Sure, we call it “office.” ...

  • 03/15/2016
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Blue Cast Springs History

By Tom Castaldi Travel east nineteen miles from Fort Wayne into Maumee Township on U.S. 24 heading for the Indiana-Ohio state line, and you’ll pass near Blue Cast Springs. Back ...

  • 10/30/2015
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ACRES Land Trust

ACRES Land Trust is a member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting natural and working lands in northeast Indiana, southern Michigan and northwest Ohio. More than 2,000 ACRES members make it possible to protect these areas and offer trail systems for free public use, open dawn to dusk daily.

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© 2025 ACRES Land Trust | A silver-spotted skipper drinks nectar from the flower of a prairie blazing star | Photo by Joanna Stebing. Photo spread on pages 10 – 11: The prairie at Wildwood erupts in a symphony of color during the summer months. Vibrant greyheaded and purple coneflowers dance alongside wild bergamot. This living tapestry offers visitors a spectacular seasonal display.