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Thank you, summer interns!

As ACRES summer interns get ready to head back to school, we want to share our appreciation for these hard workers. From wrangling non-native, invasive species to researching the communities we serve, our summer interns greatly contributed to some major projects while gaining experience in their fields of study. Land management interns Connor Havens is ...

  • 08/12/2021
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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 launches 200 year Ecological Reflections art & science initiative

ACRES Land Trust kicks off a 200-year Ecological Reflections art and science initiative with a celebration, 2 pm, Saturday, August 12 at Wing Haven, located at 180 W 400 N, Angola, IN 46703. Indiana’s oldest and largest local land trust will commission and share two centuries of work by artists and scientists investigating and reflecting ...

  • 08/09/2017
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Snapshot: Inside the Bog

“We felt like explorers in a tropical, other world,” says Reena Ramos, former land management intern and Goshen College student (right) of her experience in Spring Lake Woods and Bog with fellow intern Dustin Chafin, a Manchester University student (center). Thanks to internship support from the Olive B. Cole Foundation, Reena and Dustin shadowed botanist Scott Namestnik ...

  • 05/31/2017
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Ecological Reflections: The Art & Science of a Place in Forever

“It’s hard for most of us to visualize what forever means. This ‘short-term’ project of 200 years reinforces ACRES commitment to forever, gets people thinking about time differently, and demonstrates how ACRES views land-changes over two centuries.”– Jason Kissel ACRES Land Trust’s Ecological Reflections WHAT: A 200-year project compiling commissioned work by artists and scientists, an investigation ...

  • 05/24/2017
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When you love a place, you take care of it: Heather DeLorenzo’s story

By Heather DeLorenzo “When you love a place, you take care of it.” My name is Heather DeLorenzo and my story with ACRES Land Trust began about three years ago in 2014 when I first discovered the organization and became interested in supporting their mission. Since then, a few ACRES properties in Wabash County have ...

  • 04/25/2017
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ACRES Land Trust, Manchester students invite the public to help plant 200 trees at Wildwood preserve

Community residents will join Manchester University’s Environmental Club in reforesting an acre of Wildwood nature preserve in Kosciusko County on Saturday, April 16.  The planting of 200 trees on the preserve 10 minutes north of campus is part of ACRES Land Trust’s Indiana Bicentennial celebration. Some of the trees in the 235.5-acre Wildwood are nearly ...

  • 04/16/2016
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