LRWP was one of six local nonprofits, and the only environmental group, selected to receive an $8,000 award from the General Motors Foundation at a special ceremony celebrating GM's 25th anniversary of building pickup trucks in Fort Wayne. Executive director Sean Nolan, director of preserves and programs Betsy Yankowiak, and board president Larry ("Doc") Wei... (Click here for full article).

LRWP staff were out with the crew from Heartland Restoration Services on November 16 for a controlled burn of about 50 acres of vegetation on the east side of Eagle Marsh, near the Towpath Trail trailhead. The burn, part of our 2011 management plan for Eagle Marsh, was a way to keep this area as open marsh habitat and help control Canada thistle, reed canary... (Click here for full article).

Eagle Marsh visitors can now access all parts of the preserve more easily by crossing a pedestrian bridge over the Graham-McCulloch Ditch, thanks to the generosity of Steel Dynamics, Inc. of Fort Wayne and New Millennium, Inc. of Butler, Indiana. The ditch that runs through Eagle Marsh divides its 716 acres of varied wetland habitats almost exactly in hal... (Click here for full article).

Mark Bruhn's photo of boneset blooming against a moody indigo sky captured top honors in a September photo contest LRWP sponsored on its Facebook page. Mark visited Eagle Marsh with his family for the Monarch Festival and Open House, and while there captured the image with a Nikon D90 camera with a polarizing filter on the lens.... (Click here for full article).

In spite of threatening and sometimes wet weather, about 300 people attended LRWP's Monarch Festival and Open House at Eagle Marsh on September 24 to learn about these amazing butterflies. Inside the barn, a host of activities welcomed visitors. Local author Helen Frost inscribed copies of her best-selling children's book, "Monarch and Milkweed," and a v... (Click here for full article).

More than 150 people attended LRWP's Frogapalooza fundraiser on September 9 to help celebrate our work of bringing back lost wetlands of the Little River valley and their wildlife. The event netted more than $40,000 for our organization's needs. Frogapalooza attendees arrived at Sweetwater Sound to find auction items ranging from colorful photos of E... (Click here for full article).