Little Calumet River Conservation Collaborative

The Wetlands Initiative awarded new federal funding for community-driven restoration planning along the West Branch of the Little Calumet River in Gary, IN

The Wetlands Initiative (TWI) has been awarded a $794,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF) for continued collaborative restoration design and planning on the nearly 800-acre Chase Street Complex in Gary, Indiana. This project is being collaboratively facilitated by the Little Calumet River Conservation Collaborative, spearheaded by the Wetlands Initiative in partnership with Audubon Great Lakes, Calumet Collaborative, The City of Gary, Lake County Parks & Recreation, The Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission, The Nature Conservancy in Indiana, NiSource, and NIPSCO.

NIPSCO and NiSource Partner with TWI for Ecological Restoration, Land Preservation, and Community-Driven Planning Project in NW Indiana

Through the NiSource Charitable Foundation, NIPSCO and its parent company NiSource Inc. has awarded The Wetlands Initiative (TWI) a $50,000 grant in support of a major new ecological restoration project in the City of Gary in the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana.