NiSource
Dunes Learning Center Youth Camp Restoration Program
Merrillville, Indiana, United States
Certified through 2024
Project Name
Project Type
Dunes Learning Center ROW IVM
Grassland
About the Program
The NiSource Dunes Learning Center Youth Camp Restoration Program is located on 113 acres in Porter, Indiana. The goals of the right-of-way (ROW) integrative vegetation management grassland project includes maintaining a transmission right-of-way for safe, reliable and cost-effective delivery of electricity and natural as well as to provide habitat to support native predominantly herbaceous, grasses, ferns and other low growing non-woody plant species (prairie like) that use the ROW for their lifecycle and migratory needs, such as deer, wild turkey, song birds, and pollinators.
Practices and Impacts
The NiSource Dunes Learning Center Youth Camp Restoration Program is located on 113 acres in Porter, Indiana. The goals of the right-of-way (ROW) integrative vegetation management grassland project includes maintaining a transmission right-of-way for safe, reliable and cost-effective delivery of electricity and natural as well as to provide habitat to support native predominantly herbaceous, grasses, ferns and other low growing non-woody plant species (prairie like) that use the ROW for their lifecycle and migratory needs, such as deer, wild turkey, song birds, and pollinators.
Practices and Impacts
- The team manages and monitors the encroachment of vegetation by establishing, promoting, and enhancing a pollinator rich, predominantly native, ROW compatible habitat. This is obtained through a landscape scale integrated weed management plan and BMPs with the input, assistance, and coordination of a variety of organizations such as The Nature Conservancy of Indiana, Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, National Park Service, Lake County Parks, Save the Dunes, Shirley Heinze Land Trust and the Wildlife Habitat Council.
