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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.
That is important as Indiana continues to see more extreme rain events, according to research from Purdue University. As that water soaks into the ground, wetlands help to filter and clean the water.
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]
A bill stripping more protections for Indiana's few remaining wetlands is being shoved through the Statehouse to quash public outcry, according to environmental advocates and some lawmakers who ...
Indiana's decisions also could affect wildlife throughout the watershed, Boritt said, including the more than 80 species of Great Lakes fish that rely on wetlands to spawn, feed or protect their ...
The Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area occupies a reclaimed area. Much of it was, in former times, the Paul Thompson wetland cattle ranch; parts of the area were surface-mined for coal. Since 2005, the parcel has been under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, with 7,200 acres enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program. [3]
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