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The Challenge Of An Ever-Changing Landscape

By Evan Hill As an avid hiker and backpacker, I love hiking trails, but as a natural resource professional, it’s also important that I keep an eye on where lines should be drawn on trail installation and upkeep. Having grown ...

04/25/2024
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a close-up of two acorns leaning against each other on the grass

What Will Your Legacy Be?

Perfectly aligned with ACRES’ long-term approach to thinking and planning, planned giving allows you to plant seeds of change that will grow into a lasting benefit for future generations. Former Board President Steve Hammer and his wife, Lila, lifetime members ...

03/27/2024
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view of the creek at Heinzerling Family Five Points Nature Preserve

Visiting Preserves: Guests In Someone Else’s Home

“We live here — please respect our home!” is the unspoken understanding when visiting someone’s home. We quickly catch cues about taking off shoes, where we can go, which doors and cabinets we shouldn’t open. We know the range of ...

03/06/2024
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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 before that, it was a forest. Before the forest, it ...

03/05/2024
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Expanding Habitat for Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species

It’s a great feeling knowing that ACRES protects and stewards many areas that rare, threatened and endangered species call home. However, the number of plants and animals listed as rare is unsettling. Between 2016 and 2023, two species were removed ...

02/14/2024
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aerial view of a cornfield against a group of trees

ACRES Protects the Stevens Family Farm and Forest Reserve

The farm and 1863 home outside of Angola, Indiana, where Virginia “Ginny” Stevens was raised, and where she returned to call home the last ten years, has been in her family since the 1930s. When it was time to plan ...

01/30/2024
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a stream runs under a wooden boardwalk during the winter months

Stewardship During Winter

As the weather cools and deciduous trees become bare, ACRES stewardship crew still has vital work to do. From invasive species management through the cut-stump method, prairie plantings, forest stand improvements, boundary inspections, and access enhancements, ACRES “stew crew” work ...

01/18/2024
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two people hiking on the frozen waters of Ross Run at Hathaway nature preserve

Looking Back: Creek Stomp

Summer 2009, the first Creek Stomp was announced in the Quarterly. This widely popular Ross Run Creek event has been annual ever since. Each year, participants get up close and personal with minnows, snakes, frogs, leeches, crayfish, salamanders, insects, fossils ...

01/03/2024
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Fog hovers above the water at Ball Lake Nature Preserve

Retiring Trails: Ball Lake Nature Preserve

From a Chinese Proverb:“A good neighbor is a found treasure.” ACRES has numerous neighbors in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. ACRES neighboring parcels come in many shapes, sizes and conditions including farmland, industrial lands, resort areas, university lands and public parks. ...

12/21/2023
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Edna Spurgeon Woodland Reserve in autumn

Making a Long-Term Commitment

If you look in the most recent issue of our Quarterly, you’ll find the names of 50 people who joined ACRES in the past three months. To you who are listed — welcome to ACRES, and thanks for protecting land! ...

12/12/2023
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