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Protecting Our Streams: Why Water Quality Matters

Community Engagement, Volunteering, Water Quality /

Northwest Indiana is a highly industrialized region, and despite significant legislation and safeguards, industrial by-products such as heavy metals still sometimes manage to find their way into our local watersheds. These occurrences are rare, but establishing a water quality monitoring program is important for understanding the current health of our local watersheds, which are of […]

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Volunteers Make Way at Meadowbrook

Invasive Plants, Meadowbrook, Stewardship, Volunteering /

In July of 2021, Shirley Heinze’s stewardship staff and volunteers from Cleveland Cliffs began felling trees and clearing brush to create a new trail at the front of Meadowbrook Nature Preserve. It was just one aspect of a master plan guided by a vision that included making Meadowbrook more accessible to those protected by the

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Shirley Heinze Snapshot 9: The Great Marsh, November 1, 2023

Great Marsh, Native Plants, Nature Preserves, Volunteering /

November Marsh By Dale K. Nichols (Board Member) Dear friends of Shirley Heinze Land Trust:  This is the ninth in a series of “snapshots” featuring our Beverly Shores/Great Marsh preserve that I began writing in March of this year.  I hope you have enjoyed reading them, and that you have learned a bit about our

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