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  Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was authorized by Congress in 1966.
The Indiana Dunes area is unique in that it contains both arctic and boreal plants (such as the bearberry) alongside desert plants (such as the prickly pear cactus).
It is a wandering dune that moves or shifts every year, and so is called a "living dune." Mount Baldy is accessible from U.S. Route 12 (also known as Dunes Highway) between the town of Pines and the western border of Michigan City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indiana_Dunes_National_Lakeshore   (753 words)

  
 Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore information, pictures, and videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Joseph Bailly was one of the earliest settlers in northern Indiana.
These dunes have preserved an important remnant of what was once a vast and unique lakeshore environment resulting from the retreat of the last great continental glacier some 14,000 years ago.
The Dunes are easily reached by car west from Chicago on Interstate 90 to Highway 12, or Interstate 80/94 to Highway 12 and from the south, Interstate 65 to Highway 12.
www.adventure-crew.com /parks/IndianaDunes.asp   (4216 words)

  
 problem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Indiana Dunes is a national lakeshore, and there are many different communities surrounding it.
Indiana Dunes and Dune Acres have many things in common, but the one that stands out the most is their deer overpopulation.
In the Town of Dune Acres, citizens feel that the deer are overpopulated and that overpopulation occurs at a rapid speed.
www.museum.state.il.us /mic_home/schools98/palombi/project/Indiana_Dunes/id_problem.htm   (239 words)

  
 Save the Dunes
Since the Save the Dunes Council was founded in 1952, it has worked to create a National Lakeshore (1966), then to enlarge and protect it from such encroachments, as a proposed jetport, a railroad yard, and a nuclear power plant.
New threats to the Dune's ecosystem are always emerging...among them the often invisible villains of air and water polution, toxic waste, landfills, and the filling and draining of wetlands.
The area's long sandy beaches, dunes, Beech-Maple forests, marshes and bogs are home to a rich variety of plants and animals from places as far-flung as the desert, prairie, Deep South and the Arctic.
savedunes.org /history   (342 words)

  
 Dune Acres Indiana Resource Guide, City or community of Dune Acres, Indiana Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
The population of Dune Acres is approximately 263.
The distance from Dune Acres to Washington DC is 585 miles.
Dune Acres is positioned 41.64 degrees north of the equator and 87.10 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /incountyduneacres.htm   (201 words)

  
 Town of Dune Acres, Indiana
We have a good mix of full time residents and those who consider their Dune Acres home to be a second home, used primarily on the weekends.
Dune Acres provides the tranquil lifestyle of a small town, along with 24-hour security.
Close to nature, close to local amenities and close to Chicago's attractions, living in Dune Acres is the best of all worlds.
www.duneacres.in.gov   (205 words)

  
 id_solutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dune Acres is a town near Indiana Dune State Park.
Dune Acres found four options: leaving the deer alone, fence off yards, use a birth control pill on the deer, or cull the herds.
There are some citizens of Dune Acres that have been fighting the deer kill since 1993, but for the most part, most of the citizens don't have a problem with the town hiring sharpshooters to kill the deer.
www.museum.state.il.us /mic_home/schools98/palombi/project/Indiana_Dunes/id_solutions.htm   (579 words)

  
 Coldwell Banker -- Dune Acres Overview
Surrounded by tall pines and Dune Acres parkland, this ageless shed style contemporary offers lakeside decks and private 62’ x 32’ terrace hidden in the hollow of a tall dune covered in native vegetation and home to an abundance of wildlife.
Dune Acres offers residents a beautiful beach, log clubhouse, tennis courts, outdoor ice rink and miles of hiking/biking trails.
In Dune Acres 1st Addition, a neighborhood of historical log homes built in the late 20's/30's, two 50's Keck homes and this one, built by Studebaker in the 40's.
www.dhofmann.com /dune_acres/dune_acres.html   (1183 words)

  
 Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore travel guide - Wikitravel
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore [1] is a United States National Lakeshore located in the state of Indiana.
The Indiana Dunes area is accessible from Chicago by Interstates 80, 90, and 94; from Indianapolis by Interstate 65; from Detroit by Interstate 94; and from Cleveland and the East Coast by Interstates 80 and 90.
The Indiana Dunes is served by the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend electric railroad, known as the "South Shore Line", from Chicago, Michigan City, and South Bend.
wikitravel.org /en/Indiana_Dunes_National_Lakeshore   (1327 words)

  
 Indiana Dunes State Park - Into the Wild
Carl Sandburg once said, "The dunes are to the Midwest what the Grand Canyon is to ArizonaŠThey constitute a signature of time and eternity." Wrought by the incessant work of wave and wind over the millennia, the Indiana Dunes offer a trip forward or backward through geologic time.
Indiana Dunes rolls over thousands of acres of lakeshore wilderness.
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore surrounds the state park on three sides.
chicagowildernessmag.org /issues/winter1999/IWdunes.html   (599 words)

  
 Dune Acres, Indiana: Private Town, Public Roads « David W. Boles’ Urban Semiotic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I doubt that the Indiana DNR is operating the guard shack at Mineral Springs Road, because they close down their gate operations at the Indiana Dunes State Park in the winter and allow free access.
The gate at Dunes Acres doesn’t block access to the beach — which is open to all under Indiana law — or to national park lands.
Helen Boothe, the longtime Dune Acres resident who is adamantly against the town’s practices, called to tell me she heard from a local real estate agent, saying it’s also a “nightmare of red tape” to sell property in town, involving a strict application process for potential buyers.
urbansemiotic.com /2006/09/17/dune-acres-indiana-private-town-public-roads   (6258 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Determination of Critical Habitat for the ...
Beach width is defined as the distance from the normal high water line to the foredune (a low barrier dune ridge immediately inland from the beach) edge, or to the sand/vegetation boundary in areas where the foredune is absent.
This unit extends from the western boundary of the Cowels Bog/Dune Acres Unit, east of the Port of Indiana and the NIPSCO Baily Generating Station and along the Indiana Dunes State Park to Kemil Road at Beverly Shores.
The western boundary of the Indiana Dunes (IN-1) unit was moved approximately 549 meters (1,800 feet) eastward to the western boundary of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2001/May/Day-07/e11205.htm   (15780 words)

  
 Preserve the Dunes, Inc.
A sand dune permit issued under Part 637 of the NREPA regulates the mining and reclamation of sand from the site under permit, it does not regulate the processing of other sands which is necessary to create a saleable product.
The additional area from the adjacent property, assuming 50 foot buffer area is 2.12 acres as drawn (2.33 acres per the conditions of the purchase agreement).
Including the 50 foot buffer the area is 2.12 acres as drawn on the revised PCUMRP or 2.33 acres based on the conditions stipulated in the sand purchase agreement.
www.daac.com /sosdunes/rebuttal.html   (5640 words)

  
 Dunes Nature Preserve
South of the dunes is a wetland area, composed of marsh, shrub swamp, and swamp forest.
Between the dunes and this wetland is a strip of sandy flats with greater organic matter.
Indiana Dunes State Park, 1600 North 25 East, Chesterton, IN 46304, (219) 926-1952 or Division of Nature Preserves, 402 W. Washington St., Rm.
www.state.in.us /dnr/naturepr/npdirectory/preserves/dunes.html   (484 words)

  
 Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is the serene setting for some of the best cross country skiing in Indiana.
A 200 acre refuge for wildlife bordered by the Tippecanoe River.
One of Indiana’s most popular parks, Pokagon is built around two large natural lakes, making recreational opportunities as varied as those who seek them.
www.amishacres.com /Indianag/2000_guide/parks.htm   (441 words)

  
 AAA Traveler - Indiana Getaways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Surrounded by the green leaves of sumac and struggling strands of dune grass, you seem a thousand miles from the concrete-and-steel canyons of Chicago that are less than an hour’s ride away.
Indiana’s rolling sand dunes are the playground of America’s heartland.
Large expanses of dune country are protected by 2,182-acre Indiana Dunes State Park and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, a federally administered preserve of about 15,000 acres.
www.ouraaa.com /traveler/0207/indiana_m.html   (1632 words)

  
 Housing Hoosiers
Indiana's overall housing inventory is the primary focus of this article and will likely cause the reader to learn more about local areas within the state.
This information is available for every county, city, town, and township in the state on STATS Indiana in a series of 60-page profiles developed from a census file named Summary File 3.
Multi-Unit Housing: Indiana Compared to the U.S. Still, 25 percent of Indiana's housing is apartments or mobile homes (571,117 such units).
www.ibrc.indiana.edu /ibr/2002/fall02/fall02_art1.html   (591 words)

  
 Dune Acres, IN
Dune Acres, platted in 1923, was envisioned as an exclusive, year-round shore-line community akin to those found along Illinois' north shore.
It is now surrounded by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/393.html   (106 words)

  
 Preserve the Dunes, Inc.
The permit allowed mining of a Critical Dune Area (CDA) despite the fact that TechniSand did not qualify for either of two exceptions to the ban on mining in CDAs that was added to the Sand Dune Mining Act (SDMA) in 1989.
The study concludes that the primary cause of the reduced flow is the removal of the dunes in the adjacent strip mine.
Preserve the Dunes is a grass roots not-for-profit organization whose members have an interest in preserving the sand dunes of Southwest Michigan that are being destroyed by sand mining and are threatened by over development and incompatible use.
www.daac.com /sosdunes/index.html   (2708 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in Indiana - Ivanhoe Dune & Swale
The dune ridges are dominated by fl oaks, with an understory of prairie grasses and wildflowers, such as puccoon, spiderwort and prairie phlox.
In the 1920s, approximately 40 acres of the preserve (Ivanhoe East) were platted into more than 200 lots with hopes for a residential subdivision.
In the summer of 2001, the first of 250 Karner blue butterflies were released at Ivanhoe as part of a multi-year effort to restore this federally endangered species to the preserve.
nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/work/art6157.html   (334 words)

  
 Indiana Dunes NL: Administrative History (Chapter 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He believed this new attitude was dune in large part to tremendous political pressures as well as to the fear of harmful pollutants from the increasing number of area blast furnaces.
Foltz reported Indiana parks were overused, that no new public lands had been acquired since the Depression, and the state's population had doubled since 1945.
Praising Douglas' commitment in contrast to the shunning of the dunes by Indiana politicians, Buell presented stacks of petitions demonstrating the widespread popularity of the proposed national lakeshore.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/indu/adhi3a.htm   (1817 words)

  
 Dune Acres, Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dune Acres is a town located in Porter County Indiana.
Dune Acres is located at 41°38'47" North West (41.646416 -87.084905)
Dune Acres quadrangle, Indiana--Porter Co., 1991 : 7.5 minute series (topographic) (SuDoc I 19.81:41087-F 1-TF-024/991)
www.freeglossary.com /Dune_Acres,_Indiana   (321 words)

  
 Dune Acres, Indiana - Real Estate, Homes, Property, Commercial
If you are thinking about moving to Dune Acres, we can help you find a home, condo, luxury property or other real estate offered for sale.
The weather for Dune Acres, Indiana is reported by a local weather station using a combination of TAF and METAR reports from airports and weather stations in the area (ICAO).
If you are moving to Dune Acres or any of the more than 601 Indiana cities you can contact us immediately.
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 Civic Improvement Foundation
The Foundation was formed as a body distinct and separate from the Town of Dune Acres to which tax-deductible gifts, bequests, and memorials, etc. may be given.
It was incorporated in the State of Indiana on November 25, 1984, and received final approval of 501(C)(3) tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service on August 28, 1986.
Nine members are chosen from the residents of Dune Acres and three are the Town Council members.
www.duneacres.org /civic_improvement_foundation.htm   (258 words)

  
 Michigan Environmental Council
The late Dorothy Buell, who at age 65 began the job of mobilizing citizens to push for the creation of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which encompasses nearly 25 miles of dune lakeshore and 15,000 acres.
Tom Anderson of the Indiana Save the Dunes Council, founded by Buell in 1952, accepted the award on her behalf, saying, "Many people and groups had worked since the early 1900s to protect Indiana's dunes, but it was the effective organizing by Dorothy Buell and her single-minded focus that eventually made it happen."
Cawthorne recalled the intensity of the battle to pass the sand dune law.
www.mecprotects.org /MER/JUN04/sand_dune.htm   (464 words)

  
 DOGS Research Day - Indiana University Department of Geological Sciences
Three former shorelines are present in northwest Indiana arcing along the southern boundary of modern-day Lake Michigan.
It is represented by basal foreshore deposits ranging in elevation from 183 to 187 m east of Deep River and by a pronounced erosional scarp cut directly into till at an elevation of 183 to 186 m west of Deep River.
For Southern Indiana sites, sampling locations are being selected with the help of grids and random numbers as well as several reference digital map layers.
www.indiana.edu /~geosci/dept/dogsrd/2002_abs.php   (2991 words)

  
 Dune Acres, Indiana Lodging Information & Dune Acres, IN Hotels Motels - CITYology.com
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 Dune Acres, Indiana IN, town profile (Porter County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Indiana > All counties > Porter County > Dune Acres
Dune Acres is a town in Porter County, in the Chicago metro area.
Median rent in Dune Acres, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $1,500.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=264818   (745 words)

  
 After the Thaw - The Development of Lake Michigan
In parts, this "fossil" beach is only a little wave-washed pebbles and some dune sand, but in other areas the Glenwood Beach is a large multi-fingered sandspit capped by dunes.
In the southern part of the lake, the rising lake level and accompanying waves and currents scoured sediment from the margins of the lake.
Gary, East Chicago, the northern part of Hammond, Miller, Ogden Dunes, Dune Acres, Beverly Shores and the north part of Michigan City were under water.
igs.indiana.edu /geology/ancient/afterthaw/index.cfm   (917 words)

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