Be a Part of the Climate Solution
If you traveled this holiday season, there’s something you can do to lighten your footprint. Offset your travel miles with CILTI! […]
$1 Million Gift from the Betley Family will Enhance Protected Lands
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 21, 2021 Newly renamed preserve now called Betley Woods at Glacier’s End The Central Indiana Land Trust Inc. (CILTI) has received a $1 million gift from Leonard and Kathryn Betley and their family to support reforestation and land protection, as well as to establish an [...]
The Misnamed Bird: Worm-Eating Warbler
Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the final post in a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. Despite its name, the worm-eating warbler prefer insects, spiders, other arthropods and especially caterpillars over earthworms. It is a small songbird, approximately [...]
Janet McCabe: Everything Touches Everything Else
Earlier this year, we had the chance to sit down with Indiana resident Janet McCabe, who serves as Deputy Administrator of the EPA. We profiled her in the winter newsletter. Here are some highlights from our conversation. Janet McCabe From the layperson’s standpoint, problems in the environmental [...]
Indiana trees and the world’s climate challenge
By Cliff Chapman Executive Director, Central Indiana Land Trust As world leaders gather in Glasgow for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Oct. 31-Nov. 12), it can feel as though the Earth’s fate rests in the hands of a few politicians. At the same time, it might seem [...]
Road Trip: Southern Johnson County
We asked Karen Wade, one of our board members who lives in Johnson County, to recommend some attractions near the Laura Hare Preserve at Blossom Hollow. She offered this guest post. Did you know that Johnson County is known as Festival Country Indiana? And you bet we’ve got festivals [...]
With your Help, We Met our Match!
Our match goal, that is! Thanks to your generous contributions over the summer months, we were able to receive a $50,000 matching challenge grant from the Herbert Simon Family Foundation. This effectively doubled the amount of acreage we are able to protect and restore. […]
Behind the Scenes with Stewardship Manager Jamison Hutchins
Our stewardship manager, Jamison Hutchins, recently took a walk through Nonie Werbe Krauss Nature Preserve while speaking with Freya Berntson. Freya’s podcast, Midwestoration, profiles people working in the conservation field. […]
An Antidote to Bad News
Your actions make a difference! A letter from our executive director Everywhere we turn these days, we hear bad news about the state of the world. When it comes to the environment, things seem particularly dire. Habitat loss. Species extinction. The climate crisis. When you care about the natural [...]
Monitoring Land Protection with “Kermit” the Drone
If you are a CILTI member and received this summer’s newsletter, you probably noticed the unique vantage point of our cover photo. Seen from the sky, our cover shot showed the stewardship team hard at work, planting young trees on the edge of a lush forest in Parke County. [...]
