A controversial plan to allow most of Indiana s remaining wetlands to be filled or drained will be eligible for approval next week by the Indiana Senate.
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In and around Shoemaker Welding, Mark Shearer is affectionately known as the Wizard.
The magic he performs often with tools and equipment in use since the turn of the 20th century, if not before make him a treasured asset to the regional farming community and help burnish Shoemaker s national reputation for producing must-have farm drainage pumps.
If not for pumps and tile systems moving countless gallons of groundwater, some consistently and others on an as-needed basis, a good portion of the exceptionally fertile farmland in the Kankakee River Basin would be unworkable before and during much of the growing season.
Two University of Maine undergraduates are designing place-based education materials and Kâ12 curricula about the Grand Kankakee Marsh in Northern Indiana as part of a National Geographic Society grant.
Mo Weitman and Bell Gellis Morais are working with Katherine Glover, research associate at the Climate Change Institute (CCI) and recipient of a National Geographic Society Early Career Grant, to develop materials that will educate students and teachers about the past and present of an area once referred to as the Everglades of the North.
Weitman and Moraisâs curriculum design forms part of the outreach component of Gloverâs project, âBiogeography of the Grand Kankakee Marsh, Northern Indiana, U.S. over the past 5,000 years,â which seeks to reconstruct the history of the region and contribute to restoration efforts. The Grand Kankanee Marsh once spanned over 1,000 square miles and was famous for its rich biodiversity before it was irreversibly disturbed