SOUTH BEND — Facing pushback, a company that wants to build a controversial wrecked car lot next to a rare black oak savanna at the former South Bend Motor Speedway has asked county officials for an ...

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It wouldn’t be a complete summer for me if I didn’t write about Indiana’s only national park, Indiana Dunes. I made the trip up to northern Indiana this summer to visit this beautiful park. The area ...

SOUTH BEND — Hidden from the traffic on Indiana 2, a globally rare ecosystem with sandy soils, oak trees, prickly pear cactus and flowering dune plants thrives next to the now-shuttered South Bend ...

Indiana Dunes State Park and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore are working together to restore a 32-acre section of the park to promote black oak savanna restoration. The project aims to reestablish ...

Horned Powder-Post Beetles (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) are a geographically widespread, though little studied, family of wood-boring beetles. Two species of Bostrichidae, Amphicerus bicaudatus and ...

The new oak savanna is at the corner of Gaynor and Fay roads in Goshen at Long Branch Farm and Trails. Oaks are one of the most beneficial trees to support wildlife, especially after the disappearance ...