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ACRES Member Q&A with Shondell Hobbs

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 some waterfalls in the area. I visited my first ACRES property, Kokiwanee, and then a few weeks later went to Hathaway Preserve at Ross Run. ...

  • 01/20/2022
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Recent acquisitions add to existing ACRES preserves, increasing protection and habitat

18 acres added in Wells County. 19 acres south of Warsaw. 17 to two preserves in Noble County. In addition to acquiring larger ecologically rare and unique lands, ACRES Land Trust values the opportunity to work with its neighbors to expand existing nature preserves through smaller acquisitions. “Adding to existing preserves will always be a ...

  • 11/29/2018
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ACRES’ neighbors, funders expand Wildwood preserve south of Warsaw

Additional 19 acres helps keep preserve wild, protects entire pond. Silver Lake, Ind. (September 17, 2018) – ACRES Land Trust’s Wildwood nature preserve in Kosciusko County has grown by 19 acres enclosing the preserve’s small pond, thanks to a purchase from neighbor and tenant farmer Roger Wagoner and his wife, Carla. “We’re eager to work ...

  • 09/25/2018
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Exploring the Preserves: No place like home

What wildlife returns to spring woodlands and wetlands? by Fred Wooley As days lengthen and air warms, wildlife react to internal clocks triggering seasonal changes in their behavior. Most animals not migrating to warmer climates stay active in our ACRES preserves. Raccoons, squirrels, skunks, deer, fox, rabbits, weasels (the list is long!) hole up or hunker down on only brutal ...

  • 03/29/2017
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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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ACRES Land Trust is a member-supported nonprofit 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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© 2023 ACRES Land Trust | Photos: A swirling pattern frozen in Davis Fisher Creek at McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve in Allen County by Jenny Weatherford | A Virginia opossum perched in a tree at Wildwood in Kosciusko County by Ralph Campbell