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The Shirley Heinze Land Trust, originally known as the Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit land trust dedicated to the preservation of natural areas in Northwest Indiana. The Heinze Trust manages more than 2,800 acres of protected land in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Starke, and Marshall Counties in Indiana. [1]
Eagle Marsh is an 831-acre (336 ha) wetland preserve located in southwest Fort Wayne, Indiana. [1] [2] It is run by the Little River Wetlands Project, with the aim to restore the Little River watershed, a tributary of the Wabash River.
The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States.
The controversial 2021 law that stripped protections for many Indiana wetlands also created a task force. Its final report said the state needs to do more. In bill gutting wetland protection ...
The Indiana Wetlands Task Force released its final report in 2022, which advocates, experts and industry say include some pretty powerful findings and recommendations. That task force was created ...
Hoosiers have sent more than 1,000 emails to Indiana lawmakers in recent days calling for more, not fewer, protections for wetlands — the result of Hoosier Environmental Council-led efforts.
The Limberlost Swamp in the eastern part of the present-day U.S. state of Indiana was a large, nationally known wetlands region with streams that flowed into the Wabash River. It originally covered 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ) of present-day Adams and Jay counties.
Even in the 1970s, when the county determined that overflow caused by rain and snowmelt was polluting the lake, the Koppelmans began taking steps. They built a hog manure lagoon and closed a ...