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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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ACRES takes responsibility for saving, restoring rare Warsaw prairie

*Update 3/7/19: This property is now named Eastlake.  An extremely rare and ecologically significant remnant of native prairie struggling to survive amid Warsaw’s commercial and residential areas is part of ACRES Land Trust’s latest acquisition. The 7-acre prairie found in the newly-acquired Wayne Township Property* along U.S. 30 may be the easternmost example of original ...

  • 11/30/2016
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ACRES Land Trust, Indiana’s oldest and largest local land trust, protects 7,269 acres of natural and working lands on more than 100 properties in the tristate area, forever. More than 2,000 ACRES members make it possible to keep these vital places safe and offer trail systems, open dawn to dusk daily.

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