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Welcome, Summer 2022 Interns!

ACRES welcomes three stewardship interns this season. Learn about what we have in store for them and scroll down to read their bios. As always, there is a lot on the summer to-do list, beginning with invasive species management on 200 acres along Cedar Creek. Over the next three years, these 200 acres will be ...

  • 06/10/2022
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Detecting wildlife in the Cedar Creek Corridor

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 findings that makes us better-informed stewards of the land. Each day, these protected places serve as a setting for learning and discovery. In the coming ...

  • 11/15/2021
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Capturing Changing Seasons

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 of Little Cedar Creek into Cedar Creek in the distance. Gutwein, an ACRES member, created these works over the past year. “ACRES is such an ...

  • 11/11/2021
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The Turning of the Year

A note from the ACRES Quarterly editor ACRES Quarterly Editor Carol Roberts reflects on the changing of the seasons, encouraging readers to connect with nature this fall. What changes signal “the turning of the year” for you? As a child, I loved hearing my grandparents talk about “the turning of the year.” I understood this ...

  • 10/28/2021
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Accessible Trail and Deck Coming Soon!

ACRES Land Trust has started work on a new accessible trail and deck at the Tom and Jane Dustin Nature Preserve in Huntertown! If you’ve visited the preserve recently, you might have noticed that a portion of the existing trail is blocked off where our stewardship team is clearing the way for a .25-mile loop ...

  • 10/15/2021
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Florence’s Trail

The trail along the north bank of Willow Creek in Bicentennial Woods has been dedicated in honor of Florence Thyrza Pauly, a native of Fort Wayne and long-time resident of Bloomington and Indianapolis. Florence’s estate was donated to ACRES Land Trust in 2018 as a tribute to the comfort and healing she found in nature. ...

  • 01/18/2020
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On the eve of its 60th Anniversary, ACRES Land Trust launches first-ever capital campaign

HUNTERTOWN, Ind., December 2, 2019 –ACRES Land Trust is launching a Capital Campaign to help build a barn and renovate the home it uses as an office. The investments will help the nonprofit care for its expanding acreage, following a period of 50 percent growth in the land it owns and protects. Founded in 1960, ...

  • 12/02/2019
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Taking Responsibility: Removing a low-head dam on Cedar Creek

“What did the fish say when he was swimming upstream and hit concrete?” “Dam!” Dr. Jerry Sweeten, ACRES board member, retired Manchester University biology professor and expert on low-head dam removal, enjoys a good laugh and talking waterways. He loves fish, river ecology, teaching and preservation. He’s led the charge in removing three low-head dams ...

  • 09/03/2019
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ACRES completes 500-acre acquisition phase on Cedar Creek, launches storytelling project

ACRES completes 500-acre acquisition phase on Cedar Creek, launches storytelling project HUNTERTOWN, Ind., August 5, 2019 – On completion of a 500-acre acquisition phase on Cedar Creek, ACRES Land Trust is launching a website, booklet and video on its decades-long work protecting the Corridor. To date, the nonprofit permanently protects one thousand acres in the ...

  • 08/05/2019
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Mackel family adds to Cedar Creek legacy

The late Dr. Frederick O. and Elfrieda Mackel expanded a neighborly legacy of preserving the Cedar Creek Corridor through ACRES Land Trust. The Mackels originally purchased land overlooking Cedar Creek in 1956, moving there from Fort Wayne so their four children could grow up exploring fields, creeks and woodlands. The Mackels’ neighbors and friends, Jim ...

  • 08/21/2018
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