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Edna W. Spurgeon Woodland Reserve

The Edna W. Spurgeon Woodland Reserve was the first ACRES property. It’s an area of low ridges or kames left by glaciers and cut by glacial meltwater. From the parking lot, head east through a young forest before entering a mature forest of beech, sugar maple and tulip trees, among the largest in the state. ...

  • 03/25/2016
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Lonidaw

This rolling wooded terrain features beech and maple trees on upland ridges, and a rich wildflower display each spring. Lonidaw provides one of ACRES best places to view trilliums. Several trillium species carpet the preserve’s forest floor, usually peaking near the beginning of May. After walking through about a mile of white, red and pink ...

  • 03/25/2016
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Lloyd W. Bender Memorial Forest

Enter this preserve on a short boardwalk over a wetland, then go uphill and downhill, traversing a wetland forest, an upland forest, an area of forested floodplain of the Elkhart River called The Spreads and a brushy section of sedge meadow. Land donor Lloyd W. Bender purchased the property in 1924 to protect the woodland ...

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Florence Badger Nature Preserve

This little gem’s level trails meander through a beautiful upland woods dominated by beech trees ranging from saplings to mature trees. The larger trees with smooth gray bark are reminiscent of columns rising toward the canopy. In late fall, you can recognize the beech saplings because they hold their light-tan leaves well into winter. Some of the property’s largest trees are oaks, ...

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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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