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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:03 — 3.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe volunteer organization Friends of Lake Monroe is working to develop a watershed management plan for the lake. Dr. Sherry Mitchell-Bruker is president of Friends of Lake Monroe. She appealed to the Bloomington City Council last week, for support for a grant from the Indiana Department of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:10 — 23.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Republicans reaffirmed ‘marriage’ as the union between a man and a woman, during their state convention, on Friday; MCCSC is looking to adopt new curricula for its middle and high schools students, after racist materials in the district’s elementary schools Social Studies curriculum generated controversy, earlier this …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:45 — 5.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The Sycamore Land Trust has expanded its conservation efforts across South Central Indiana since its inception nearly thirty years ago. Now, as the Land Trust is adding another employee, WFHB Correspondent Alex Davis speaks with Sycamore Land Trust Communications Director Abby Hankel, about the extent of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:42 — 49.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn April 26, Steve Higgs discussed his experience studying and reporting on natural conservation in Indiana. Higgs is among Indiana’s foremost environmental photographers and is the author of Eternal Vigilance: Nine Tales of Environmental Heroism in Indiana and A Guide to the Natural Areas of Southern Indiana. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:16 — 7.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s Eco Report feature, we hear from Steven Higgs, an environmental writer and photographer who has published books including “A Guide to the Natural Areas of Southern Indiana.” In that book, Higgs documents 119 protected natural areas in southern Indiana. In this next clip, Higgs begins …