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From ‘For Sale’ to ‘Protected Forever’: The Riegsecker Family Legacy

From a chance discovery to permanent protection, the Riegsecker family legacy spans seven decades of conservation. On Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, a tornado struck Jesse and Agnes Riegsecker’s homestead ...

  • 10/24/2025
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Summer 2024 Road Trip

Are you looking to get out of the house this summer and hit the road? We’ve got you covered! This day trip takes you along I-69 and has you hiking ...

  • 06/21/2024
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looking upstream at the Kokiwanee waterfall

Kokiwanee: Celebrating 20 Years

Twenty years ago, ACRES acquired Kokiwanee from the Girl Scouts who had operated the property as a camp from 1945 to 1996. Before that, the property was a farm, and ...

  • 03/05/2024
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Tall trees at John Cring Memorial Forest

Acquisition: John Cring Memorial Forest

Earlham College recently donated to ACRES a 40-acre forest in Jay County. In the 1960s, Earlham College had received the property from the Cring family, who had requested that the ...

  • 12/04/2023
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Acquisition: Conley Woods Nature Preserve

ACRES recently acquired Conley Woods Nature Preserve, a 100-acre property in Elkhart County, Indiana. This land was previously protected by Trillium Land Conservancy (TLC), a land trust founded in 2001 ...

  • 11/06/2023
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flowers at Ropchan Memorial

50 Years: Ropchan Memorial

October, 4 2023 marks 50 years of protecting Ropchan Memorial forever! While this milestone certainly is a significant one, these past 50 years are merely a drop in the bucket ...

  • 10/04/2023
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Retiring Trails: Beechwood Nature Preserve

History Beechwood’s record reaches back into ACRES history. In 1964, Garnette and Mildred Foster gifted the majority of the preserved land. Garnette was a Detroit teacher and early member of ...

  • 09/16/2023
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