Kankakee Sands, an 8,400-acre expanse of prairie and wetlands in northern Indiana, is adding accessible parking, viewing scopes and signs to help tell the history of the area and a new chapter about ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands in Newton County, Indiana, is undergoing a significant restoration project, bringing back native prairie ecosystems and reintroducing ...

The relocation project is a collaboration between the Indiana DNR, The Nature Conservancy and Purdue University Fort Wayne. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources released 25 endangered ground ...

A restoration project in Northwest Indiana known as the Prairie Jewel is underway, the project is located at the Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands in Newton County, where efforts are being made to ...

The year is 1835. The Grand Marsh of the Kankakee River, surpassed in size only by the Florida Everglades, extends over 500,00 acres from South Bend to northeastern Illinois. In Newton County, a tall ...

Gus Nyberg and the Friends of the Kankakee will lead a tour of the Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge at 6 p.m. June 19. The tour will focus on the general natural history of the Kankakee Sands, and ...