Your Land Trust Staff Shares Nature Moments
As nature-lovers ourselves, we appreciated the chance to reflect on our top nature moments. Enjoy these “postcards” from our staff, which first appeared in the fall 2025 newsmagazine. […]
Linking Up Land in the Hills of Gold
Brown County is beloved for its vistas of iconic Southern Indiana hills. Now the forests under protection in the county include another 89 acres. That’s all thanks to our members’ generosity! […]
You Can Help Protect Reservoirs of Biological Diversity
Our board member, John Bacone, reflects on conserving key natural areas. He led the Department of Natural Resources Division of Nature Preserves for over four decades. Years ago, when I was working in the Indiana DNR Division of Nature Preserves (DNP), I asked Bob Waltz, the State Entomologist, how [...]
Tomorrow’s Conservation Leaders
We asked our outgoing communications intern, Olivia, to interview each of our interns and seasonals. Here are profiles of the wonderful people who helped our team this summer, including Olivia herself! […]
How Ellen Jacquart Gardened CILTI
Third in a series about CILTI’s early supporters, in honor of our 35th anniversary Ellen Jacquart is one of the people who planted the first seeds of CILTI. Before it fully took to bloom, she served as one of its many supporting roots. Now a member of the board [...]
Grace’s Book Rec: North Woods
Part 5 of our winter “Staff Picks” series North Woods is a novel written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason. It was easily my favorite read of 2024. The story begins on a plot of land in northern Massachusetts, and remains in the exact same spot for hundreds of [...]
“Just imagine the vastness of our state’s natural heritage”
Guest post by Karen Wade As a mostly-native plant gardener, I can often be found in my backyard on hands and knees tending pots of pawpaw seedlings, tucking soil around newly planted native spicebushes, or just hanging out on the back step marveling at how the bumblebees manage to [...]
From “Sapling No. 1” to Today
In May of 2020, our stewardship crew placed a small red flag in the ground. The bare sticklike plant next to it was marked sapling #1.
A Personal Tribute to Len Betley
Part 4 in a series Our spring newsmagazine honors the late Len Betley, our friend and benefactor. We’ve been sharing tributes from people who knew, loved, and respected Len. Here our longtime supporter Priscilla Johnson, who serves on our board, offers her reflections. […]
Committed to Conservation
Third in a series memorializing our friend and benefactor, Len Betley Our spring newsmagazine features a tribute to the late Len Betley, who left a tremendous land protection legacy. Bill Weeks, who has a long history of service in the conservation field, worked with Len in the 1980s. We [...]
