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    • Michigan City Resources
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    • Water
    • Nature
    • Tree Board
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    • Local Black Businesses
    • Uptown Arts District
    • Sustainability Commission
    • Housing
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  • Home
  • Michigan City Resources
    • Where to get help
    • Contact City Council
    • How you can help
    • Greenhouse Gas Inventory
  • Coal Ash Pond Closure
  • Water
  • Nature
  • Tree Board
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  • Local Black Businesses
  • Uptown Arts District
  • Sustainability Commission
  • Housing
  • Go Native
  • About me
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Sites to check out!

The Mad Botanist

Which Living Things Should You Study?

Which Living Things Should You Study?

  Bill (aka The Mad Botanist) is a professionally trained botanist, experienced gardener and educator. A native Illinoisan, he schooled at EIU, U of Mich and the U of Ill. He is comfortable dealing with flowering plants and cryptogams (i.e., fungi, lichens, bryophytes and ferns) as well as ornamental and food plant issues. He has an extensive ethnobotanical background and understands the peculiarities presented by the bistate climate and soil, both in natural and human influenced environs.  More

Which Living Things Should You Study?

Which Living Things Should You Study?

Which Living Things Should You Study?

  Rosemary makes books and cartoons that connect people with the natural world.

Her Bird and Moon nature comics won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and were the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. She makes best-selling science books for kids and adults and gives keynotes at birding festivals. She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, PBS kids’ Elinor Wonders Why, Ranger Rick, and more. She’s represented by Seth Fishman. Her favorite glacial landform is the esker. 

The Hoosier Mushroom Society

Which Living Things Should You Study?

Mini Yard Meadows Give Bees a Boost

 

The Hoosier Mushroom Society was formed in 2009. For the last several years, we have been an informal mushroom hunting organization in the state. Starting in 2013, we will be accepting dues paying members to the organization.

The mission of the Hoosier Mushroom Society is to promote the science of mycology and the study of fungi.

Our interests include:

collecting and identifying wild mushrooms and other fungi
cooking with wild mushrooms
photographing mushrooms
arts and crafts with fungi.

Home page

Mini Yard Meadows Give Bees a Boost

Taaja Tucker Silva Biologist & Illustrator

Mini Yard Meadows Give Bees a Boost

 

New research reveals how you might tailor a lawn to the types of insects you want to attract for pollination or pest control.


Discover Magazine Link 

Degrowth

Taaja Tucker Silva Biologist & Illustrator

Taaja Tucker Silva Biologist & Illustrator

 

 Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective. 

Article

Taaja Tucker Silva Biologist & Illustrator

Taaja Tucker Silva Biologist & Illustrator

Taaja Tucker Silva Biologist & Illustrator

 

 These coloring and activity sheets are available for educational, non-profit, or personal use and may not be modified for any reason without written permission. Most of these are intended to be printed on 8.5 x 14″ legal size paper, but the “Zooplankton of the Great Lakes” can be printed on standard 8.5 x 11″ letter size paper.  


Coloring Sheets & Projects

Chicago Wilderness

Global Environmental Insect Apocalypse

Global Environmental Insect Apocalypse

 We are a regional alliance leading strategy to
preserve, improve, and expand nature and quality of life.

By connecting leaders in conservation, health, business, science, and beyond, we tackle challenging issues to ensure a resilient region.

Building on more than 25 years of collaboration, our broad alliance of member organizations advance work in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan. LINK

Global Environmental Insect Apocalypse

Global Environmental Insect Apocalypse

Global Environmental Insect Apocalypse

 https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

Calumet Pollinator Asset Project

Global Environmental Insect Apocalypse

Calumet Pollinator Asset Project

 We need your help! While we have started to populate the Pollinator Asset Map, we need your help to fill in the gaps. Using the Asset Survey found on the Map page, we would love for you to tell us where pollinator habitat can be found, including community gardens and even your own native garden. More

Re-wilding Northwest Indiana

NWI Times

https://www.nwitimes.com/opinion/columnists/guest-commentary/northwest-indiana-has-stellar-examples-of-rewilding/article_2f2c2e35-cd92-58c5-b6c7-271991bc9326.html

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Better ways to grow food

Check out this great video- short and to the point

Leave the Leaves to Benefit Wildlife



https://xerces.org/blog/leave-leaves-to-benefit-wildlife

Ap news Article

 

People of color more exposed to heat islands, study finds

Nature Links

Michigan City Forestry

Great local information!

Living in the Dunes

 Living in the Dunes A homeowner's guide to landscaping in Northwest Indiana's dune communities and exploring the world around them.    

Indiana Master Naturalist Program

Excellent program 

Indiana Native Plant Society

 https://indiananativeplants.org/ 

Kids learn to explore

 Forest Kindergarden  

Plants

 Indiana Gardeners - Avoid these invasive exotic plants Indiana DNR List

The list with photos for each

Edible Plants- not Indiana specific 

Birds

 eBird 

Audubon Birds

Insects

 Beautiful caterpillars transform to lovely butterflies and moths 

More Indiana Nature

 Amphibians of Indiana 

Frogs and Toads of Indiana

In planning stages: Singing Sands Trail Wildlife Observation Deck

 Project Partners: Indiana Audubon Society, Indiana Dunes National Park, Michigan City Park Department, Michigan City Public Art Committee, NIPSCO, The Bike Stop Cycling Club.

The deck will be located on the west end of the Singing Sands Trail in Michigan City, overlooking a National Park wetland. The wildlife observation deck will serve as a resting place for trail users, an outdoor classroom for area schools, a stop on the annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival, an attraction for the Indiana Dunes National Park, and an addition to Michigan City’s Sculptfusion, a self-guided art tour. The deck will be ADA accessible and feature an artistic, nature themed corten steel railing system, shaded and unshaded viewing areas, seating, interpretive signage, a nature themed art sculpture, and bike racks.


Singing Sands Wildlife Observation Deck

Map of location  US 12 & Singing Sands Trail
Front view
Wetland view
Side view with path

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