Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore News

Herb and Charlotte Read will be recognized by the Hoosier Environmental Council with the Robert Klawitter Lifetime Achievement Award at HEC's annual green policy forum on Saturday in Indianapolis.

The alewife, the sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels, the round goby, spiny water fleas, rusty crayfish, bloody red shrimp, and the silver and bighead carp.

Keep off the grass and stay on the trails! That's the urgent request of the National Park Service for regular visitors at the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk until next summer.

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A northwest Indiana development official says he hopes a 10-mile stretch of recreation trail along Lake Michigan can be built within five years to complete a series of trails connecting Illinois to Michigan.

The route for a 9.65-mile trail that will join the east and west halves of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was unveiled with an array of dignitaries at the Lakefront and Riverwalk Thursday afternoon.

The sun arrived two hours late for the Fall Fanfare hike Saturday afternoon, so interpretive ranger Julie Weller left without it.

The National Park Service will conduct four prescribed fires this fall at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

James Slamkowski, a retired electrician, has volunteered for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for three years.

Leaves are beginning to change at Mount Baldy at the Indiana National Dunes Lakeshore in Michigan City.

Let's start with the toughest assignment: Midwest Mountain Girl wants to climb a mountain.

That the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has been named by the National Park Foundation as one of the top 10 national parks for fall foliage this year.

Chilly but clear weather made for a good turnout Saturday for the annual "open houses" event for one of Northwest Indiana's most popular piece of Chicago history, the Century of Progress homes from the 1933-34 World's Fair.

This weekend, people have a rare chance to see history. The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana are looking for more people to sign up for the reservations-only tour of the Century of Progress homes.

2. The Calumet Gun Club, located on the banks of the Calumet River southeast of Gary's Tolleston neighborhood, was a private hunting club for wealthy Chicagoans.

Cadettes from Troop 60245, Concord, on a trip to the National Geographic BioBlitz at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and the Marquette Plan are among the nine recipients of a combined $43.8 million in federal funding secured by U.S. Rep.

Touching a salamander and meeting a one-day old snapping turtle were only two of many exciting and educational encounters Immanuel Lutheran School elementary students were able to experience through a grant from the Friends of the Dunes.

Neither Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore nor National Weather Service officials weren't particularly worried about a lakeshore flood warning issued by the weather service on Monday.

Sydney Johnson, 15, gave a quick tour of the work he had done so far at Cowles Bog in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.