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Students document life at one preserve

By Reena Ramos, ACRES Outreach Manager Although ACRES protects many preserves with notable features like waterfalls and other unique formations, every ACRES preserve holds hidden gems sometimes seen only through closer inspection. In 2019, a group of students from Purdue University Fort Wayne set out to conduct an ecological and floristic survey of Little Wabash ...

  • 09/30/2021
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Anna Brand Hammer Reserve

Art Hammer’s Lasting Legacy

By Chris Fairfield “A living memorial such as this is better than a tombstone.” These words were spoken by Arthur W. Hammer at the dedication of the Anna Brand Hammer Nature Preserve in Wells County. Art (as he was known) purchased the 40 acres in 1951, gifted a primary part of it to ACRES in ...

  • 07/19/2021
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Michael Black preserves family land with ACRES Land Trust

ACRES Land Trust’s newest preserve, the Mills-Black Nature Preserve protects 11 acres and extends an emerging preservation corridor. Four generations of Michael Black’s family worked the land at the corner of Ernst and Aboite roads, five miles east of Roanoke. Michael didn’t want to see more of his family’s land sold off and divided, so ...

  • 06/02/2016
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