Chesterton Tribune
Environmental News Archive
Below are links selected older Chesterton Tribune news stories
IDEM Don't expect quick response to red dust pollution Health Dept IDs red dust in Crocker as iron oxide Consensus of NPS Dunes open house: Chellberg is story in need of telling DNR: How to keep coyotes out of your yard County has deficit of local park land, DNR study finds Herb and Charlotte Read recognized by HEC for lifetime of conservation work Use hotline to fight poaching Nature preserve renamed in honor of Faith and Gordon Greiner Birders converge on the Indiana Dunes; the Merlin makes it memorable Save the Dunes donates lots to the National Lakeshore Beach towns call for saving Chellberg Farm DNR: Report bird band information Dillon's No. 1 goal: To see Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore survive Dunes groups join to combat spread of invasive plants $1.4 million in stimulus funding to restore Dunes Creek habitat NPS wants private firm to operate Good Fellow conference center Bioblitz comes to Indiana Dunes Future of Bailly Homestead and Chellberg Farm: Volunteers needed to prepare plan Save the Dunes Council to fight closing of Chellberg Farm and Bailly Homestead IDEM urges Hoosiers to opt out of junk mailings Photo: To see every bird in the state: The Big Year of 2008 Courts: Indiana environmental regulators can be tougher than feds Deer cull at National Lakeshore included in NPS preferred plan IDEM dissolves Office of Enforcement Save the Dunes Shop: 35 years supporting dunes preservation Photos: White ringed crossbill sighting helps birder set personal record Invasive snail found in Lake Michigan Indiana Dunes State Park naturalist Brad Bumgardner interprets the moment USGS expands SAFE beach program here Save the Dunes acquires new nature preserve in Pine Township Mystery solved: 'Bluebellied' gulls were painted by researchers Federal, city partnership creating lake front park Photo: Harlequin Ducks at the Port of Indiana 20,000 acres Kankakee marsh being restored Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's new boss looking to unify park's mission and image Photo: Rare bird sighting at Dunes Nature Center Lake Michigan E. coli research brings award for two local scientists New Dunes Lakeshore superintendent has protected beaches, authored cult classic Killer Tomatoes Woodland Savanna Land Conservancy aquires conservation easement Photo: New Dorothy Buell Visitor Center open for business Save the Dunes rebuts DNR boss comments on State Park history No bidders for Dunes State Park beachfront hotel Photos: Indiana Dunes State Park (Un)controlled burn jumps fence to Porter Beach Photo: Dunes Creek uncovered when State Park removes parking lot Nature's builders: Beavers busy along Chesterton streams Portage Parks Foundation buys land along Salt Creek Scientists tell new method for predicting lake swimming safety Officials step back from reliance on E coli tests, look to alternatives to predict beach contamination Very rare roadkill bobcat found here Photo: Lost dune remembered in David Tutwiler painting Helen E. Dancey Meadow envisioned as haven for birds A rattling good find: The eastern massasauga is not extinct Photo: Lakeshore volunteer Angel Gochee wins national award Married into the dunes: A double 50th anniversary for Dunes defenders Herb and Charlotte Read Bailly Homestead house to return to 1910 appearance LEL dedicates Coffee Creek Watershed preserve