Dr. E. Lucy Braun, whose pioneering work in forest ecology paved the way for today’s conservationists, stepped out of history to greet attendees of our Spirit and Place Festival hike. The old growth forest of Meltzer Woods offered a stunning backdrop for her comments as she looked back at [...]
Sunshine on the river, leaves turning golden, and strategic thinking. The board of the Indiana Land Protection Alliance, of which our executive director Cliff Chapman is the treasurer, met recently at Oliver’s Woods for a planning retreat. […]
We are honored that a generous donor has offered a matching challenge grant to close out 2020. All contributions will be doubled during this season’s giving campaign, as the Efroymson Family Fund will match all gifts received by December 28, 2020, up to $75,000. […]
We thank Purdue University professor Mary Ellen Lennon for this guest post. As an educator, I have enjoyed the use of Central Indiana Land Trust resources and properties for student programming. I could not be more pleased to speak of the organization’s mission to students. And as a budding [...]
Part of a series on CILTI’s conservation targets by guest blogger Ed Pope Some of Central Indiana’s core conservation areas contain plant or animal species that are endangered or threatened, either statewide or nationally: […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 7, 2020 The Central Indiana Land Trust, Inc. (CILTI) is expanding the 60-acre Meltzer Woods Nature Preserve in Shelbyville by buying an adjacent 35-acre agricultural field, where it will plant more than 20,000 trees. The purchase totaled approximately $260,000 and was made possible through CILTI’s [...]
Creating future habitat for Eastern box turtles and many other species, we kicked off our million tree initiative this year. We’ve pledged to plant one million trees over the coming years in strategic sites, linking up hundreds of acres of fragmented land to benefit sensitive wildlife. Our tree-planting efforts [...]
Part of a series on CILTI’s conservation targets by guest blogger Ed Pope Most Hoosiers think of the Great Plains when they hear the word prairie. Actually, about 13% of Indiana was prairie prior to the arrival of Europeans, mostly in the northwest part of the state. […]
Indiana lost a great champion of conservation last month when Philip Meltzer of Shelbyville died at age 94. Mr. Meltzer was the driving force behind the protection of one of the state’s last unprotected old growth forests—now a state-dedicated nature preserve. […]
Part of a series on CILTI’s conservation targets by guest blogger Ed Pope Since most of Central Indiana is relatively flat, it doesn’t contain many canyons, waterfalls or spectacular rock formations. This makes those that exist, such as Mossy Point’s striking sandstone bluffs, all the more precious. […]
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