February 17, 2012 – Three hundred U.S. Representatives have co-sponsored the Conservation Easement Incentive Act, including Indiana Representatives Dan Burton, Joe Donnelly, and Pete Visclosky. H.R. 1964 makes permanent a recently-expired tax incentive that helps organizations like Sycamore Land Trust work with modest income landowners to conserve important natural and historic resources throughout southern Indiana. Landowners can retire the development rights on their land by donating a conservation easement to a… [Read More]
SLT News
One Thing Congress Agrees On: Land Conservation
Welcome to Our New Website!
December 1, 2011 – Our new and improved website is now live! Many thanks to the crew at IU’s Serve IT Community Clinic for working with us to create the new site. It has an updated look, more information about SLT and our projects, and several great new features. The new site will make it quicker and easier to find out more about the impact and scope of our conservation work throughout southern Indiana…. [Read More]
SLT Raising Funds to Expand Trevlac Bluffs Nature Preserve
November 3, 2011 – Sycamore Land Trust is working to purchase a 38-acre addition to our Trevlac Bluffs Nature Preserve in Brown County, as reported in a front-page article in today’s Herald-Times. The parcel for sale, which includes a large portion of the bluff that features a rare stand of native hemlock trees, would be a critical addition to the preserve. The hemlock stand is one of only twenty or… [Read More]
SLT Protects 58 Acres in Greene County
October 10, 2011 – SLT has recently secured the protection of The Clemens Place on Clifty Creek, located just north of Koleen in Greene County. Donated by William Clemens, Jr., the 58-acre parcel is SLT’s fourth protected property in Greene County, our 73rd property overall. “Donating the Clemens Place on Clifty Creek to Sycamore Land Trust gave me a meaningful way to honor members of my family who settled on… [Read More]
The Raymond Foundation Awards Grant to SLT’s Environmental Education Program
October 5, 2011 - Our award-winning Environmental Education program has received a $20,000 installment of a multi-year grant from the Raymond Foundation. This will allow the program to continue reaching out to kids throughout southern Indiana, connecting them with nature and combating “Nature Deficit Disorder.” During the 2010-2011 school year, the Environmental Education program reached 2,785 kids at 38 schools. Our thanks goes out to the Raymond Foundation for their support.
