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Wildlife Habitat Council
Northwest Indiana - Southeast Chicago Office The Northwest Indiana – Southeast Chicago Office promotes and implements wildlife habitat enhancements, land restoration and reuse opportunities for private industrial properties and public lands. Our projects demonstrate the use of ecological enhancements on contaminated, degraded and underutilized properties through hands-on pilot projects. |
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Deep River Outdoor Education Center |
As part of Earth Day 2007, the Wildlife Habitat Council joined with the Deep River Outdoor Education Center in Gary, Indiana, to launch a long-term sustainability effort in northwest Indiana. Teachers and students from West Side High School worked with the Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Sierra Club, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. National Park Service and conservation partners from northwestern Indiana to conduct the first biotic inventory of wetland habitats in the area. The inventory was the first step in the larger effort to enhance the native biodiversity of 74 acres of floodplain forests, wet prairie, wetlands and upland forests around the City of Gary.
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Regional Spotlight Northwest Indiana is home to some of the rarest habitats and most unique ecosystems in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The Northwest Indiana – Southeast Chicago Office is implementing a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program Office, focusing on private-public collaborations that restore the ecology of industrial properties on the Lake Michigan Basin. 
Please note address change:
Wildlife Habitat Council
6100 Southport Road
Portage, Indiana 46368
E-mail: dgoldfarb@wildlifehc.org
Office: 219-763-6060 ext. 161
Fax: 219-762-1653
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