On Saturday, Oct. 12, Indiana Audubon and Indiana Land Protection Alliance (ILPA) invite you to join a statewide celebration of birding and conservation. For the third consecutive year, we’re partnering to ...
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 ...
We all have our go-to self-care routines, whether it’s curling up with a good book or finding comfort in our favorite meal. But have you ever considered nature as a ...
Volunteer preserve steward Larry Watson of Wabash, Indiana, describes his service as a “win-win.” Helping to care for ACRES properties and keep the trails clear for visitors is a way ...
What made you want to support ACRES?I always thought there were no good places to hike here in northern Indiana, but a few years ago, I found out we had ...
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 ...
Spring has arrived, bringing beautiful woodland wildflowers with it. To celebrate the season, ACRES invites you to take a virtual hike with us! Retired professor and botanist Dr. Dave Hicks ...
“Springy places” the early pioneers called them…probably because the pioneers frequently encountered springs of water emanating from these wet landscapes, or maybe because walking on these bouncy wetlands put a spring in their step. These globally rare ...
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 ...
Dear Friends, Land can produce a seemingly unlimited diversity of plants. Consider a small garden plot. On the same piece of land, sweet corn, green beans, tomatoes, turnips, peppers, radishes, ...
