Tag Archives: Sycamore Land Trust

Sycamore Land Trust‘s mission is to preserve the beauty, health, and diversity of southern Indiana’s natural landscape through strategic land conservation and environmental education. Sycamore Land Trust wants you to know more about the wildlife communities that depend on the land they protect. In 2021, they set up 15 motion-triggered wildlife cameras at locations they know are frequented by animals. …

In this episode, we cover one of nature’s most important land stewards: the beaver. Beavers can be found in a number of freshwater habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds. When they create dams and lodges, they impound water, which serves as shelter for other animals. Their infrastructure creates wetlands used by many other species, and because of their …

This week’s featured animal is a little different. Sycamore Land Trust’s nature preserves are home to many native Indiana plants and animals, including the bobcat. Bobcats are a medium sized wild cat native to North America. Bobcats are largely solitary and rarely seen, due to their ability to blend in with their surroundings and move silently. Bobcat vocalizations are rarely …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, December 13th, 2022. Later in the program, Monroe County Councilor Jennifer Crossley expressed concerns about the new potential jail on Fullerton Pike during the latest Community Justice Reform Committee meeting. More in the bottom half of the program. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 28th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with City Councilman Matt Flaherty about the passage of the 2022 City Budget during last night’s Common Council meeting. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we provide a rundown of all the latest news on …

On today’s progam, The Sycamore Land Trust is renaming the hillside the Bob Klawitter Lake Lemon Woods as a dedication to the memory of Robert “Bob” Klawitter, a well-known grassroots environmental leader who died in a traffic accident on September tenth, nineteen ninety-six. In Segment 1 of Jessica Fitzpatrick’s Crysophere, important statistics of climate change and rising sea levels are …

The Sycamore Land Trust added over 80 acres to its Bean Blossom Bottoms Nature Preserve, last week. The new land contains wetlands, forests and existing farmland. Abbie Henkel, communication director for the Land Trust, said building Bean Blossom Bottoms has been a continual process since the first acquisition twenty years ago. Bean Blossom Bottoms, and its new land, hosts a …

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is praising the Department Of Justice for not defending Obama Care; Attorney General Hill’s office is joining a campaign launched by Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police in May to better comply with law enforcement; Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton says the city opposes the repeal of net neutrality; The Sycamore Land Trust added over 80 acres …

Eco Report’s Norm Holly interviews Abby Henkel, Communications Director for Sycamore Land Trust. The discussion of monarch butterflies population levels, tagging the monarchs, and the native plant project.

Eco Report is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely …