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Challenging Steps Stewarding Land: Walking Quog Lake with Botanist Scott Namestnik

Scott Namestnik’s eagerness to explore Quog Lake last summer was quickly replaced with trepidation. “It has to be the most challenging site on which I’ve ever conducted a survey,” he said of the ACRES Land Trust property in LaGrange County. Namestnik works for Orbis Environmental Consulting, which ACRES hired to conduct a “floristic quality assessment” ...

  • 06/18/2018
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Autumn Olive Project Update | A bold goal and call for help

Are you looking for a rewarding service project on the land? ACRES is putting out a new call for help. Last year, volunteers started the process of completely removing Autumn Olive from the Tom and Jane Dustin Nature Preserve. It was a bold goal, and the work continues. With many hands, we can beat this ...

  • 05/23/2018
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For love of land and family | Velma Caprarotta protects Caprarotta Family Natural Area

Velma Caprarotta has a long history with and a deep-seated love of the Elkhart County land she recently donated to ACRES Land Trust. Born in 1924, she grew up in the farmhouse just across the road from her recently protected property. Her late husband, Francis, and his family emigrated from Italy to Chicago in 1925 ...

  • 11/22/2017
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ACRES Land Trust is a membership-based nonprofit organization 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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