The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells.
When Indiana officials created a new industrial park to lure huge microchip firms to the state, they picked a nearly 10,000-acre site close to a booming metropolis, a major airport and a university research center. But the area is missing one key ingredient to support the kinds of development the state wants to attract: access to the huge amounts of water that microchip makers might need. Officials floated a plan to pipe in enormous volumes of water from an aquifer about 40 miles away. But the p
Bats help keep forests growing. Without bats to hold their populations in check, insects that munch on tree seedlings go wild, doing three to nine times more damage than when bats are on the scene.
By Katelynn Farley - Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:06 AM
Shelly Reed displays an image of one of the many frog species that the Indiana Master Naturalist class learned about on Saturday, April 10. Photo by Katelynn Farley
On Saturday, April 10, participants in the Salamonie Lake Indiana Master Naturalist (IMN) class took part in several lessons, such as the sounds that several kinds of frogs make and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
The IMN mission is to “foster an understanding of Indiana’s plants, water, soils and wildlife and promote natural resource volunteer service within the state of Indiana.”
Participants were given a cup full of items such as a comb, a bell, a balloon, marbles and a rubber band. Each item, when used in a certain fashion, imitates the sound of a different kind of frog.