Supporters of wetland legislation approved Tuesday by the Indiana legislature say the regulations are fair to residents, property owners, agriculture and developers while those against it say the ...
The bill, known as House Bill 1383, will roll back protections for many of Indiana’s most regulated wetlands, making the permitting process easier for developers to build on them. The state's ...
A frog sits on the edge of a wetland in Indiana on May 25, 2021. The USDA’s National Resources Conservation Service makes technical determinations for wetlands on farmland based on the type of soil, ...
Wetlands once made up 25 percent of Indiana. Many of these 5.6 million acres were located in the fertile farmground of northern Indiana. Early in the 19th century, landowners began using open ditches ...
A study by TNC shows that Indiana voters overwhelmingly support measures to protect and manage the state’s water resources.
Origin Park, a groundbreaking, 430-acre park in Clarksville, Indiana, once filled with landfills, junkyards, and wetlands, this landscape is being reclaimed and reimagined as a place where history, ...
this one for north-central Indiana, which found there’s plenty of water, but it’s not distributed evenly across the area. Hoosiers also recognize wetlands play an important role in our water ...
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The property houses the ruins of Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Piatt's estate, and the graves of his family and people he ...
Kankakee Sands, an 8,400-acre expanse of prairie and wetlands in northern Indiana, is adding accessible parking, viewing scopes and signs to help tell the history of the area and a new chapter ...
at Indiana Dunes National Park. Spanning 15 miles of the lake, the park’s 15,000 acres feature 50 miles of trails through rugged sand formations, mysterious wetlands, sunny prairies, wandering rivers ...
Indiana. Morrison has sponsored bills in the past to significantly reduce protections for the state’s wetlands — which benefitted home developers. He also supported bills to allow industries ...