Wild Ones Gibson Woods Chapter serves the Indiana counties of Lake, Porter and La Porte, and Illinois’s Cook County.
https://gibsonwoods.wildones.org/
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Wild Ones Greater Indianapolis Chapter serves communities in Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson and Marion counties and adjacent areas.
https://greaterindianapolis.wildones.org/
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https://www.facebook.com/WildOnesGreaterIndianapolis
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Wild Ones South Bend Chapter centered in South Bend, Indiana. The South Bend Chapter serves residents in St. Joseph County, Indiana, and surrounding counties (Elkhart, Laporte, Marshall, Starke, Kosciusko, and Michigan counties of Berrien and Cass.)
https://southbend.wildones.org/
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075865006272
https://www.instagram.com/WildOnesSouthBend/
Wild Ones South Central Indiana (Seedling) Chapter serves communities in Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan and Shelby counties and adjacent areas.
https://southcentralindiana.wildones.org/
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https://www.facebook.com/WildOnesCentralIndiana
https://www.instagram.com/wildonessouthcentralindiana/
Wild Ones Valparaiso Moraine (Seedling) Chapter serves communities in Jasper, LaPorte, and Porter counties and adjacent areas.
https://valparaisomoraine.wildones.org/
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https://www.facebook.com/WildOnesValparaisoMoraine/
https://www.instagram.com/wildonesvalparaisomoraine/
If you do not find a chapter near you, or if you choose not to be part of a Wild Ones chapter, you may choose to be a Partner At Large (PAL). A PAL is not assigned to a chapter but joins a group of members who work solo in their own communities or simply enjoy the benefits of a Wild Ones membership. Either way – as a chapter member or as a PAL, you receive all the benefits of membership. Join Now!
Upcoming Chapter Events in Indiana
GW Wild Ones 10th Biennial Native Plant Symposium
Hosted by Wild Ones Gibson Woods ChapterSt John Township Community Center, 1515 W Lincoln Hwy, Schererville, IN, 46375 Map
Paid Event Public Welcome Registration Required Conference/Symposium Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking
Three great speakers, breakfast & lunch, silent auction, book sale, door prizes & more!
Registration is OPEN until Oct 1st!
November Annual Meeting and Presentation: Meet our State Botanist
Hosted by Wild Ones South Bend ChapterPublic Welcome Family-Friendly Free Event Chapter Annual Meeting Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
Presenter: Indiana's State Botanist, Scott Namestneck
Detecting and Experiencing Old Growth Forests in NW Indiana and SW Michigan, Let's Go Exploring! - with Dr. Spencer Cortwright, Professor at IUN
Hosted by Wild Ones Gibson Woods ChapterPublic Welcome Registration Required Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking
How can we detect that we are in an old growth forest or one very similar to old growth? How much old growth is left in the eastern half of the U. S.? We will explore the idea of old growth forests. We will visually interpret and visit candidate old growth forests in NW Indiana and SW Michigan!
Spencer Cortwright grew up in Riverside, Illinois—near, but not in, Brookfield Zoo—with the zoo and Cook County Forest Preserves serving as his earliest nature stomping grounds. He earned a biology degree from Washington University in St. Louis, then sharpened his ecological expertise at Indiana University (at the time, not exactly known for football).
Following a postdoctoral stint in ecology research and teaching at the University of Michigan (very much a football powerhouse), Dr. Cortwright joined the faculty at Indiana University Northwest, where he has taught since 1992. He has studied amphibian ecology for more than a quarter-century and restoration ecology for nearly as long, with plenty of overlap between the two. Otherwise, he jokes he’d be far too decrepit to be doing much of anything at all!