SISL Update - Spring 2024
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Read MoreJoin us to explore the role prescribed fire, a carefully planned and executed practice, plays in maintaining the health, vitality, and biodiversity of our Hoosier oak-hickory and grassland ecosystems.
Read MoreCLC announces the launch of the organization’s Environmental Legal Aid Program to serve the environmental legal needs of local residents, advocates and community groups in Gary, Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago (“the Region”). The new program builds on CLC’s mission of providing free representation to environmental non-profits tackling critical environmental health and justice issues, as well conservation organizations engaged in protecting natural resources, water quality, and wildlife habitat.
Read MoreQuestion: What specific goals and objectives does the Sentinel Landscape program aim to achieve in Southern Indiana?
Spalding: We are currently drafting our strategic plan to guide us through the next three years. Our core goals will focus on preserving and protecting military missions, supporting sustainable farming and forestry, restoring and sustaining ecosystems, and increasing landscape resiliency. We will be focusing on strategies and actions that promote wise land use, permanently protect land, encourage sustainable land management practices, restore degraded ecosystems, utilize natural climate solutions, and improve water quality.
Read MoreThe Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape (SISL) partnership is excited to announce approval of a Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) for the 3.5-million-acre SISL area.
Read MoreWe are proud of the progress that has been made in our landscape this past year and the bright future ahead. None of this could be possible without the hard work and time commitment from all of you, including both landowners dedicated to conservation and partnering organizations and agencies.
Read MoreThe team at CLC, along with our partners, have been working hard to successfully launch the SISL program. Our first six months have been packed full of planning and outreach. Here are a few of the activities we have been focused on.
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