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Download PDF File Shirley Heinze Land Trust INSIGHTS Fall 2020 Sand coreopsis planting at Coulter/photo: Susan Kirt • Paddling into the Future • New Opportunities for "Growing" • Restoration Initiatives Completed • Volunteer of the Year www.heinzetrust.org Volume 23 Issue 2 On the professional front, this marks my fifteenth year at Shirley Heinze. How different things are from when I started in 2005! We occupied a tiny Paddling into little office space in Michigan City back then, and my days were filled with endless hands-on tasks the Future that are now accom- plished much more his year has been interesting, to competently by other, say the least! We’ve had to find better qualified staff Tnew ways to stay in touch, and members. We’ve assem- Zoom calls from home have become bled a knowledgeable the new norm. Despite the challenges, and professional team Shirley Heinze Land Trust has continued over the years, freeing to advance its work at the highest level. me up to focus on man- The strong foundation we’ve built over agement, partnership the years and the loyalty of our steadfast engagement, strategic Abby Krouse paddling on the Little Calumet River supporters have made it possible. In a planning, and fund- world turned upside down, we’ve hardly raising. It’s astonishing what an innovative and dynamic organization we’ve missed a step. Amazing! become, never fearing to take on new initiatives and projects we might have For me personally, it’s been a mile- found intimidating not so long ago. This is a testament to the caliber of our Kristopher Krouse and his daughter Abby stone year on both the home front and board, staff, and volunteers. in the office. Heidi and I are now offi- As a going-away activity before they left for school, I took both Jak and cially empty nesters. In August, we dropped off both our kids, Jak and Abby, Abby on separate kayaking trips down the Little Calumet River; we paddled at their respective schools for the fall semester. The house has never seemed from our Wykes-Plampin Nature Preserve to Bailly Homestead in Indiana emptier, and Morty the dog is getting lots more attention. We took advan- Dunes National Park. The excursions offered a great opportunity to see, tage of this special summer by embarking on a two-week camping adventure first-hand, the phenomenal work that has been achieved in the Little Cal to many of our national parks out west. It was a Krouse-style trip, with an Corridor and the wonderful recreational opportunities emphasis on exploration and only a vague notion of an itinerary. The kids now available. It brought a tear to my eyes to see how have always loved these vacations, and this time they took charge, picking the comfortably my kids now fit into the natural world that hiking trails, starting we’ve worked so hard to protect. My personal and pro- the campfire, cooking fessional lives have merged in a wonderful way. I will the food. I cherished always be indebted to Shirley Heinze Land Trust and the time we spent to- everyone who has made it what it is today. gether on this trip. I know there will be With Gratitude, many more good fam- ily times in the future, but this was the last trip Kristopher Krouse, where the kids were Executive Director Jak Krouse still kids. INSIGHTS is published twice a year by Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Inc. Website: www.heinzetrust.org 109 West 700 North Valparaiso, IN 46385 ‘Like’ us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/heinzetrust Tel: 219-242-8558 E-Mail: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @heinzetrust 2 3 Acquisition Provides New Opportunities for "Growing" ast spring we acquired an tural community, the Porter County Soil additional 50 acres of land and Water Conservation District, the Lwithin the Little Calumet River Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Area. The newly acquired (NRCS), Indiana Dunes National Park, property is located in Pine Township, and the Indiana Department of Natu- adjacent to our Dale B. Engquist ral Resources are among our partners. Nature Preserve and the Indiana DNR’s These groups offer new opportunities Reynolds Creek Gamebird Habitat Area. to help us enhance our Conservation Together with Indiana Dunes National Areas, realize our vision for the East Park’s Heron Rookery Unit, nearly Branch of the Little Calumet River Cor- 2,000 acres of contiguous land are ridor, and improve Climate Resiliency. now protected at this site! It provides Local farmers like Mike Rhoda are a significant wildlife habitat, including for great source of knowledge and exper- endangered species like the Indiana bat, tise for us as we begin to implement best migratory birds, reptiles and amphibians. management practices to help improve The new parcel is mostly agricul- water quality and enhance watershed tural land, with some forested wetlands, management, such as using cover crops emergent marsh, and surrounding up- to prevent runoff and improve soil land woods. The land is quite wet, and health. The right mix of cover crops has most likely will be converted to wetland the potential to improve soil aeration, habitat in the future. With this acquisi- improve water infiltration, increase soil tion, Shirley Heinze Land Trust has so organic matter, reduce fertilizer needs Photo by Terri Smolinski far protected 518 acres within the Little and nutrient runoff, and even reduce Calumet River Conservation Area. pests and pathogens. We are working As much of this parcel and other with NRCS to secure funds through the Cover crop seed was recently sown by plane over a field within the Little Calumet Corridor lands surrounding this area of the corri- Environmental Quality Incentives Pro- dor are in agriculture, we are also in the gram that will cover the costs of imple- Farmers have been stewards of the land for generations. They have a unique process of learning more about agricul- menting the cover crop practice. connection with nature and understand land conservation. We look forward to tural land preservation working with farmers on conservation practices and land preservation, and we are and best management grateful to all of the partners assisting us with this effort. If you are a farmer or practices used by farm- landowner in the corridor and feel Shirley Heinze may be able to assist you with ers to help conserve your conservation or preservation goals, please feel free to contact us. We would soil and water. Land love to have a conversation. trusts across the na- tion work with farmers ~ to help achieve these common goals. As part A generous grant from The Laura Hare Charitable Trust provided most of of our strategic plan, the funding for the purchase. We are also grateful to the grandchildren of Bert and we are exploring an Agriculture Protection Martha Olson, who sold the property at a bargain sale discount, and two individual Program of our own. donors who made significant contributions. The local agricul- Aerial map of acquisition 4 5 monitoring the project. Also, to our friends at the Flora Rich- Major Restoration ardson Foundation for their steadfast annual support of the GLISTEN program. Many students who started in the GLIS- Initiatives Completed TEN program on this project still work with us in some capaci- ty of regional conservation today. We are sincerely grateful to our Stewardship Program field staff who did most of the heavy lifting. Our field staff trudged through wetlands, hiked up and down hills, carried heavy back- Joe pye weed and cardinal flower on the left, and vervain, boneset, bidens on the right, establishing pack sprayers, repaired equipment, overcame challenges, got in wetlands at Beverly Shores previously dominated by cattails and reed canary grass so many things unstuck from the mud, and experienced every weather condi- ur Stewardship Program recently submitted final reports for two large tion, bug bite, Eric Bird, restoration initiatives funded by the Sustain Our Great Lakes (SOGL) plant rash, and Stewardship Director Oprogram administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation thorn scratch (NFWF). The two projects took place simultaneously between September 2016 and imaginable. February 2020. The projects focused on removing invasive species and enhancing Of course none of this work native vegetation at John Merle Coulter, Beverly Shores Great Marsh, Green Heron would be possible without funding Pond, Cressmoor Prairie, and Gordon and Faith Greiner nature preserves. support from the public/private We are very grateful for all of the contributions from our dedicated volunteer partnership of the SOGL program base, donors, partners, committee members, board members, and staff. and the staff of NFWF who were The two projects combined included 243 acres of restoration, over 716 hours of Rich Dorton planting at Beverly Shores there with us every step of the way. volunteer and intern contributions, over 13,500 hours of staff time, individual donor We are so very grateful for their contributions, and partner support. Volunteer contributions alone provided nearly support of these projects, and numerous projects throughout the region for many $10,000 in match for the project helping to leverage grant funds. years. These two projects were a tremendous undertaking. We are so very proud to We want to give a special thank you to the students of the Great Lakes Inno- see them completed, and so sincerely thankful for all of the support along the way. vative Stewardship Through Education Network (GLISTEN) program who helped So let’s all celebrate another great project (or two) completed! conduct a great deal of restoration and conducted special projects to collect data for tershed. Students return from projects with Shirley Heinze Land Trust with a unique The Flora Richardson Foundation set of skills, knowledge and confidence that they share with their classmates and their instructors.
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