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Renovating native warm-season grass stands for wildlife: A Land Manager's Guide
Many wildlife species use or require fields and other areas of early successional vegetation to meet their habitat requirements. Native warm-season grass and forb mixtures (NWSG) are promoted through various state and...
Environmental Hypermedia Programs, Vol. II
It features 11 programs, several of which are available only on CD-ROM: Chemical Contamination in Fish Update; Environmental Planning for Small Communities (TRILOGY); Environmental Assessment Case Study (ALASKA); Envi...
Assessing Your Land's Potential for Wildlife
Many landowners would like to make their land area more attractive for wildlife, but do not know where to start. This paper outlines the basic decision-making process landowners must go through prior to initiating manage...
Individual Residence Wastewater Wetland Construction in Indiana
This publication describes general procedures for developing a constructed wetland for a single family residence. This guide is designed to be used with the diagrams included. It is intended for use by homeowners, regula...
You'll learn the basis for open space planning and how to categorize open spaces. In this four-page publication you'll find the steps to develop and open space plan....
Indiana Farmland Provides Rest and Forage for Arctic Travelers
Shorebirds, those little brown birds normally associated with ocean shorelines, make an appearance twice a year along seasonally flooded agricultural fields in Indiana. The birds are making their way in the spring to bre...
Private Property Rights: Rights, Responsibilities & Limitations
This publication addresses frequently asked questions about property rights in land in order to dispel myths and misunderstandings and generate thoughtful discussion. ...
Plan Commission Public Hearings: A Citizen's Guide
This publication provides lists of indicators and similar detailed checklists for each business function identified in ID-236. It provides indicators and checklists for productions, procurement and selling, financial man...
The Law Behind Planning and Zoning
To understand how planning and zoning may affect your land, it is important to be familiar with the legal terminology. This publication explains some of the basics of Indiana planning and zoning law, including its origin...
Indiana Soil and Landscape Evaluation Manual
This publication presents methods for describing soils and landscapes. Its goal is to foster better communication between soil scientists who write soil and landscape evaluation reports and the environmental specialists ...
Protecting Prime Farmland in Indiana
This publication seeks to answer the following questions: What is prime farmland? How is it determined? How much has already been lost, and how much do we have left? What are the consequences of continued loss locally...
A Landowner's Guide to Commercial Wind Energy Contracts
This publication provides landowners with information to consider when evaluating and negotiating contracts with wind energy developers. Topics covered include lease vs. easement, parts of a wind energy contract, propert...
Indiana Land Surveys: Their Development and Uses
Land surveys precisely define the locations and boundaries of tracts of land. This publication reviews the history and development of two survey systems, how they work, and the particular value of each.
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Woodlots are dynamic, vital ecosystems in the urban and suburban landscapes of the Midwest. People own these small wooded lots in urbanized areas for a variety of reasons: timber production, firewood production, recreati...
Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces
Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces supports the development of great public spaces reflective of community values. The Indiana-based curriculum is designed for use by decision makers and local leaders with ov...
Indiana Soil and Water: Four Strategies to Improve Your Field's Soil Health
This publication provides four basic strategies to help improve the health of your soil: (1) Practice no-tillage or strip-tillage, (2) Add more crops to your rotation, (3) include cover crops, and (4) manage nutrient...
Land Use: A Planning and Zoning Glossary
Knowing and using a common vocabulary of planning and zoning terms will help you understand planning and zoning issues and communicate in a better way. This glossary of commonly used planning and zoning terms should m...
Bovine Tuberculosis in Wild White-tailed Deer
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a bacterial disease of mammals resulting from the infection of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). It is a zoonotic disease that can infect humans, domestic stock, and wild animals. Outbreaks ...
Land Use: Assessing Your Comprehensive Plan
This publication discusses the process of comprehensive planning in Indiana. It also describes the content of comprehensive plans and factors to consider when updating or amending comprehensive plans.
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Land Use: Welcome to the Plan Commission or Board of Zoning Appeals
This publication provides an overview of the local plan commission and BZA to help you understand the role of these committees and to prepare for your first few meetings.
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Indiana Soil and Water: How to Understand and Interpret Soil Health Tests
This publication describes four common laboratory soil health tests that we evaluated. The publication also discusses the challenges of using these tests in Indiana croplands.
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Land Use: The Comprehensive Plan
This publication describes the "why, what, and how" of a comprehensive plan and focuses on the process and the contents.
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Illinois Soil Evaluation Agriculture Field Book
This field book is an updated (2021), condensed version of Illinois Soils: Evaluation for Agriculture and Home Sites. Students can use this book to prepare for soil judging contests. Includes
Illinois Soil Evaluation Agriculture Scorecard
This free, downloadable scorecard is designed for use by students participating in Illinois soil judging contests. Pairs with