Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore News

A local old-timer gave this year's St. Lucia's Day celebration at the Chellberg Farm in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore an extra touch of authenticity.

It's official: a temporary building moratorium there was lifted Tuesday and Porter Beach now has new zoning regulations to guide more orderly future development.

O * the morning of Dec. 13, Naomi Chellberg Studebaker would wear a wreath of fresh greenery on her head, balancing several lit candles as the young girl awakened her parents with coffee and special pastries.

C alumet High School students Shelby Jerome and Jasmine Jones visited Purdue University Calumet's recent simulated job fair expecting to get information on potential careers.

George Bagnall has known for decades that his time in his beach-front home was limited.

"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" was the creation of Costa Dillon, who happens to be superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Waste piles dumped at ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor are raising eyebrows at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

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BEVERLY SHORES, Ind. - Dozens of people who live within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore celebrated their final Thanksgiving in their homes Thursday, months before the government is set to take possession of their properties.

Sure, Mel was full of stuffing. He was a turkey, after all. Perhaps more importantly, though, Mel was a turkey puppet, leading a program Sunday afternoon at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Visitor Center on the native bird, which will be the centerpiece of countless tables across the country come Thursday.

This aerial photo shows the waste pile known as 'Easterly's pile' at the ArcelorMittal mill in Burns Harbor.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 Environment - Gary Post-Tribune alleges steel company gets special treatment because of IDEM commissioner "Fate of 'Easterly's pile' at ArcelorMittal remains unknown" is the headline to this story by Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post-Tribune , the first of two parts.

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.