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. […]

By |2025-02-14T00:20:58+00:00September 30, 2021|A Million Trees, Homepage, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on With your Help, We Met our Match!

The Wonder of the Monarch

(This piece was originally published in the September issue of Urban Times) That monarch butterfly winging through your neighborhood has a whole story to tell. It’s a story of habitat loss and endangerment, but also wonder. Weighing less than a gram, this iconic species will take an incredible journey [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:20:58+00:00September 8, 2021|Hikes and Events, Newsroom, Olivers Woods, Properties|Comments Off on The Wonder of the Monarch

Northern Parula Builds Nests of Moss

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the eighth of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. The northern parula is a small warbler, roughly half the weight of a goldfinch. Its body looks slightly chubby, and its bill is [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:24+00:00August 31, 2021|Blossom Hollow, Burnett Woods, Jacob Schramm Nature Preserve, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Northern Parula Builds Nests of Moss

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. […]

By |2025-02-14T00:20:58+00:00August 24, 2021|A Million Trees, Newsroom, Nonie Krauss Nature Preserve, Properties, Stewardship|Comments Off on Behind the Scenes with Stewardship Manager Jamison Hutchins

Take Part in Citizen Science through this Scavenger Hunt

Do you love spending time outdoors and looking at the plants around you? Your observations could help add to scientific knowledge of Indiana’s native flora! […]

By |2025-02-14T00:20:00+00:00August 20, 2021|Newsroom, Properties, Stewardship|Comments Off on Take Part in Citizen Science through this Scavenger Hunt

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 [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:07+00:00August 19, 2021|A Million Trees, Homepage, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on An Antidote to Bad News

Dickcissels Are a Lively Grassland Bird

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the seventh of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. The dickcissel, slightly larger than a song sparrow, looks much like a miniature meadowlark. This grassland bird breeds in the Great Plains and [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:24+00:00August 11, 2021|Newsroom, Nonie Krauss Nature Preserve, Properties|Comments Off on Dickcissels Are a Lively Grassland Bird

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. [...]

By |2025-06-26T21:22:15+00:00August 3, 2021|A Million Trees, Conservation Easements, Hikes and Events, Newsroom, Nonie Krauss Nature Preserve, Properties, Stewardship|Comments Off on Monitoring Land Protection with “Kermit” the Drone

Exploring Nonie Werbe Krauss Nature Preserve in High Summer

Third in a series on the Trek our Trails Challenge by guest blogger Ben Valentine I drove up to Nonie Werbe Krauss Nature Preserve with my son one early morning in a failed effort to avoid the heat. It’s late summer now, and wildflowers and pollinators are my new joy, [...]

By |2025-06-26T21:20:53+00:00July 27, 2021|Blossom Hollow, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Exploring Nonie Werbe Krauss Nature Preserve in High Summer

Who is that Masked Bird? Cedar Waxwing!

Our spring newsmagazine featured Cliff’s top ten hidden gems of birding. Here is the sixth of a blog series on these birds, by guest blogger Ed Pope. The cedar waxwing is a songbird roughly the size of a song sparrow. The plumage over most of its body is fairly drab, [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:21:07+00:00July 9, 2021|Burnett Woods, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Who is that Masked Bird? Cedar Waxwing!
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