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When first-time visitors arrive on the Tom and Jane Dustin Nature Preserve north of Fort Wayne, they are stunned. We...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Friday, November 3, 2017Friday, November 3, 2017 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
When first-time visitors arrive on the Tom and Jane Dustin Nature Preserve north of Fort Wayne, they are stunned. We have canyons? 80-foot ravines in Allen County?
How did this happen in otherwise flat landscape? Tony Fleming, geologist and long-time ACRES member, shares the story of how a glacier carved Cedar Creek’s tunnel valley, from Lanham’s Promontory on the Tom and Jane Dustin Nature Preserve.
Digging our region’s natural groove: Cedar Creek’s Tunnel Valley
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Have you heard? This spring, ACRES set a record pace for planting tees! And, since 2016, with donor support, we’ve...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Thursday, May 16, 2019Thursday, May 16, 2019 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
Have you heard?
This spring, ACRES set a record pace for planting tees! And, since 2016, with donor support, we’ve reforested 165 acres, planting 100,000 trees!
Many thanks to ACRES members who invest in protecting, restoring and managing natural places. Your investment makes a lasting impact on the land you love.
ACRES Land Trust plants pace-setting 55,000 trees, reforesting 106 acres
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This neon pink katydid looks like it jumped out of a Lisa Frank illustration! 🌈 ACRES Stewardship Assistant Jenna Bair...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Friday, August 6, 2021Friday, August 6, 2021 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
This neon pink katydid looks like it jumped out of a Lisa Frank illustration!
ACRES Stewardship Assistant Jenna Bair came across this colorful katydid while working in the field. Its pink color is the result of a genetic mutation that allows for abnormal amounts of red pigment in the absence of green.
[ In North American Katydids, Green isn’t the Dominant Colour, Pink is Recent breeding experiments have revealed that bright pink, not green, could be the most genetically dominant colouring of the North American oblong-winged katydid. ]
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We protect tree farms! ACRES harvests trees sustainably while utilizing best management practices. These practices focus...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Tuesday, March 19, 2024Tuesday, March 19, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
We protect tree farms!
ACRES harvests trees sustainably while utilizing best management practices. These practices focus on maintaining a high level of biodiversity within the canopy, mid-story, and forest floor.Priorities include:
- Limiting erosion
- Maintaining water quality
- Protecting and creating habitat for many species of birds, bats, and the countless other critters that stay beneath the trees.Most folks who plant trees with the intention of them one day being harvested are no longer around when the time for the first harvest arrives. ACRES ensures that these tree plantings are cared for and properly stewarded through their transition into a natural forest.
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Our Stewardship Director, Evan Hill, wrote a great article about how ACRES determines when it's time to reroute or...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Saturday, April 27, 2024Saturday, April 27, 2024 post by ACRES Land Truston Facebook:
Our Stewardship Director, Evan Hill, wrote a great article about how ACRES determines when it's time to reroute or retire a portion of trail inside of a preserve we protect. To learn more: The Challenge Of An Ever-Changing Landscape
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Recently, two Anabat recording systems were installed at an ACRES preserve! This device has a special microphone that...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Wednesday, May 8, 2024Wednesday, May 8, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
Recently, two Anabat recording systems were installed at an ACRES preserve!
This device has a special microphone that can pick up the more sensitive sounds sounds that bats, birds and other critters make and records them. People who study and protect nature often use Anabat systems to learn these animals—how many there are, what they do, and how they fit into the environment.
Anabat bat detection system: description and maintenance manual at USDA Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Fauna Foto Fiesta 🐌📸 Check out who's been living in ACRES preserves recently!
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Thursday, May 9, 2024Thursday, May 9, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
Fauna Foto Fiesta
Check out who's been living in ACRES preserves recently!
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For National Endangered Species Day, take a look at how a partnership between the Northeast Chapter of Indiana Native...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Friday, May 17, 2024Friday, May 17, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
For National Endangered Species Day, take a look at how a partnership between the Northeast Chapter of Indiana Native Plant Society - INPS and ACRES led to the rescue and protection of 80 Baxter's Violet (Viola baxteri) in 2023.
Read more: Springing into Action: A Plant Rescue [ Allen County’s suburban areas are expanding with new housing developments. A number of these new structures will be placed on land that has been forested for decades if not centuries. ... Although events like this are not a solution to the ecological crisis brought by habitat loss, they serve an important purpose. Saving those individual violets may one day genetically benefit the species as a whole. ] -
McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve - ACRES Land Trust protects a picturesque high south bank of the St. Joseph River, the...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Friday, May 31, 2024Friday, May 31, 2024 post by the ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve - ACRES Land Trust protects a picturesque high south bank of the St. Joseph River, the ravines of Davis Fisher Creek, and old-growth maple woods with sugar maple, tulip, red and white oak, beech, ash, and sycamore. Spring brings a carpet of wildflowers beneath the trees: spring beauty, large-flowered trillium, cut-leaved toothwort and many more.
by Thomas Sprunger#ACRESLandTrust #PreserveOfTheWeek #McnabbWalterNaturePreserve
https://acreslandtrust.org/preserve/mcnabb-walter-nature-preserve
Lets Hike: McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve ACRES Land Trust (Old Sugar Camp Remnants)March 20, 2023 Darus Eifler on YouTube
Equipment: DJI Pocket 2 From McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve "This preserve protects a picturesque high south bank of the St. Joseph River, the ravines of Davis Fisher Creek and an old-growth maple woods with sugar maple, tulip, red and white oak, beech, ash and sycamore. Spring brings a carpet of wildflowers beneath the trees: spring beauty, large-flowered trillium, cut-leaved toothwort and many more. Alwilda “Wilda” McNabb Walter cherished this land to which she had a lifelong connection. Born on the McNabb homestead in 1903, she and her husband, Martin Walter, purchased her parents’ home and farm in 1944. The property’s sugar maple woods was used for a maple syrup business, and today there are still remnants of the sugar camp. In 1982, the couple donated the old homestead and farm to ACRES to forever protect the special place they called home." -
We are thankful for our plant partnership with Izaak Walton League! Each year, we collect seeds and transfer them to...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Wednesday, June 5, 2024Wednesday, June 5, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
We are thankful for our plant partnership with Izaak Walton League!
Each year, we collect seeds and transfer them to containers with soil. Izaak Walton League then stores these containers in their greenhouse for growth. Once the time is right, we plant the plugs in strategic locations on various ACRES properties!
We can accomplish so many great things when we work together for the good of the land!
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Since our inception in 1960, when 12 individuals each contributed $5 toward the noble goal of land protection, this...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Saturday, August 17, 2024Saturday, August 17, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
Since our inception in 1960, when 12 individuals each contributed $5 toward the noble goal of land protection, this mission has grown into a powerful movement. Today, more than 2,100 members continue to support this enduring vision with the same unwavering commitment.
ACRES has always been a member-powered nonprofit.
Our members have protected over 7,800 acres of land across our region. Their steadfast support allows ACRES to offer free access to 32 nature preserves with trails. Our members do more than support financially; they actively spread the word, document our history, and steward ACRES properties with the same respect they show their own spaces.
Our members are ACRES.
If you're ready to join this growing community that isn't afraid to get its hands dirty, become a member today! https://acreslandtrust.org/give-now/ -
Beginning at the Tom & Jane Dustin Preserve parking lot, visitors can access the Dustin, Johnson & Whitehurst Nature...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Thursday, November 14, 2024Thursday, November 14, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
Beginning at the Tom & Jane Dustin Preserve parking lot, visitors can access the Dustin, Johnson & Whitehurst Nature Preserves - ACRES Land Trust trail loop on either side of the red barn. The trail winds through meadows and woodlands, passing a wetland filled in springtime with horned bladderwort and the call of spring peepers. The southwest portion of this trail follows a bluff 80 feet over Cedar Creek, one of only three designated Indiana Natural, Scenic and Recreational Rivers.
by Thomas Sprunger*********
Utricularia cornuta, the horned bladderwort, is a small to medium-sized, probably perennial species of carnivorous plant. Indiana Plant Atlas..
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Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Friday, November 22, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
Did You Know?
Indiana has more orchids than Hawaii? Indiana has over 40 different orchid species.
Cedar Creek is one of only three rivers in Indiana to be designated as a Natural, Scenic and Recreational River System! ACRES conserves over 1,300 acres within the Cedar Creek Corridor!
Northeast Indiana has waterfalls! ACRES has two trails with waterfalls in Wabash County; Kokiwanee and Hathaway Preserve at Ross Run.
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🌳 The LaSalle Family protects 75 acres of land with ACRES Land Trust! 🌿 Thanks to the incredible generosity of Bill and...
Posted by ACRES Land Trust on Thursday, December 19, 2024Thursday, December 19, 2024 post by ACRES Land Trust on Facebook:
The LaSalle Family protects 75 acres of land with ACRES Land Trust! 
Thanks to the incredible generosity of Bill and Amanda LaSalle, 75 acres of woodland along Cedar Creek are now protected forever! This new addition to the Cedar Creek Corridor helps preserve one of Allen County's most critical natural areas, home to diverse wildlife and rare plant species.
The LaSalle Family Natural Area joins nearly 2,000 acres of permanently protected land in the corridor. Special thanks to the Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation for supporting this project!
Full story here: LaSalle Family Natural Area