4,375 Acres to be Logged and Burned in Hoosier National Forest
![Injured Eastern box turtle, burned because of forest management activities.](https://indianaforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TurtleEasternBox-BurnedInFire.jpg)
We urgently need your help in contacting the officials listed below to stop this ill-advised project and compel the Forest Service to consider alternatives.
From Lichens to Flying Squirrels: Ecoblitz Results Reveal Complexity of an Older Indiana Forest
![Indiana Forest Alliance staff and volunteers after presenting at the Indiana Academy of Science.](https://indianaforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ecoblitz-symp.jpg)
This relatively undisturbed forest in the Back Country Area (BCA) of Morgan-Monroe State Forest has great species complexity and high species richness in the absence of intense forest management. One tract of Yellowwood has been logged, but other parts of the BCA remain intact for now, and IFA will continue the Ecoblitz in these unlogged areas.
Box Turtles: Looking for Love is Easier in Contiguous Forests
![Eastern Box Turtle on the road.](https://indianaforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/turtle-on-road-768x512-1.jpg)
A forest healthy enough to sustain Box Turtles will also be home to a diverse community. That forest will support such a variety of animals, plants and microbes with such complex interactions that the old phrase web of life only begins to describe them.