By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust: This is the seventh in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve. You will recall that my last blog post, dated August 15, focused on several of the pink and purple blossomed plants that were then dominating the Great
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By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust: This is the sixth in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve. For reasons that will become obvious as you read this post, I am naming it “Pinks and Purples.” My dog, Riley, and I have taken daily walks
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By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust: This is the fifth in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve. It will focus on some of our lovely native marsh plants (the “good”) and their non-native or invasive cousins (the “bad” and the “ugly”). Because all of
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By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust: This is the fourth in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve. My last post included a high-level overview of the different families of plants that grow here. This one will delve into more detail on one of them—the
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By Rory Kosior, GLISTEN intern from Indiana University, studying Environmental Science In Prince-Ruiz’s 2020 TedTalk in Perth, Australia she says, “Here’s the thing about big change, it’s got to start somewhere and it often starts with an individual.” Removing all plastic from our lifestyles is almost impossible, but it’s important that we don’t let that
By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust: This is the third in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve. It will focus on the types of plants that can be found in our Great Marsh properties, those whose seeds we harvest for planting in the fall,
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By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust: This is the second in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve. How quickly things change! What just a few short weeks ago was a barren brown landscape has now morphed into a mottled sea of expanding greenness. Skunk
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By: Melissa Washburn Does that sound like an awful lot of birds? Last year I learned that that’s the estimated number of individual birds that flew overhead in just the first three days of Indiana Audubon’s annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. Northwest Indiana is an ideal pit stop for birds during peak spring migration in
By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Welcome to the Shirley Heinze Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve! This is the first in what will be a series of “snapshots” featuring the preserve over the course of 2023. The Great Marsh properties of Shirley Heinze Land Trust comprise about 70 of its 87 acres of landholdings in the
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Growing up with a forest in my backyard, I thought I knew all the sounds that Indiana spring nights had to offer, from the distinctive hoots of owls to the occasional chirp of bats. Apart from these somewhat rare springtime noises, it seemed like the forest, for the most part, held on to the blanket
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