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 Old growth forests are forests that have not been disturbed for at least 150 years. While they have some exceptionally large trees, there will also be many younger trees. When one of the giants falls, it [...]
Before he owns the Pacers, Steve Simon’s love of nature draws him to another organization From the IndyStar front page, August 10, 2020 by Dana Hunsinger Benbow Brought up in a family of commercial real estate gurus who built massive malls and shopping centers, Steve Simon never fell for [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2020 This week the Central Indiana Land Trust Inc. (CILTI) is planting 15,000 trees in Johnson and Parke counties. These are the first of CILTI’s 1 million trees being planted in Central Indiana and in addition to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s commitment to planting 1 [...]
In Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 2020 State of the State address, he announced plans to have the Indiana Department of Natural Resources plant a million trees over the next five years. We applaud this investment and join him in the vision of increasing Indiana’s forested land. […]
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