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Archive for category: From the Director’s Den

01.122019December 18, 2019
Celebrating 20 Years – Did you miss the party?

Celebrating 20 Years – Did you miss the party?

By Julie BorgmannIn Blog, Education & Outreach, From the Director's Den, News

It is important to take time to celebrate accomplishments. The reflection is important to show gratitude for the many people, business, and foundations who made the work possible. If you couldn’t make the party last month ....

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28.112019December 18, 2019
Red-tail Conservation Awards Presented

Red-tail Conservation Awards Presented

By Julie BorgmannIn Blog, From the Director's Den, News

We gathered at Minnetrista, the original meeting place, last month to celebrate, reflect, and recognize the many people who made the work of Red-tail a reality. Red-tail’s founder and first executive director, Barry Banks, was the ....

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08.112019November 8, 2019
Celebrating 20 Years

Celebrating 20 Years

By Julie BorgmannIn Blog, Education & Outreach, From the Director's Den, News

What were you doing 20 years ago? Perhaps you were preparing for the digital demise as the calendar rolled into the new millennium? Maybe you were thinking, “I remember when Prince first sang 1999, how can it already be 1999?” ....

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07.022018February 15, 2018
Beyond Barry—Revisited

Beyond Barry—Revisited

By Barry BanksIn From the Director's Den, News

Anyone who has been involved with Red-tail on almost any level these past two years has realized how much we have broadened our scope of activities. From our....

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03.012017January 10, 2017

Announcing: Valena Woods

By Barry BanksIn Education & Outreach, From the Director's Den

Red-tail Land Conservancy is pleased to announce the purchase of 46 acres along White River just west of Yorktown, Indiana, to be named Valena Woods. This riparian woodlands is the fourteenth nature preserve owned by Red-tail. Also, we have recorded nineteen conservation easements, for a total of...

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11.102016October 11, 2016

Mussel on the Mississinewa River

By Barry BanksIn Education & Outreach, From the Director's Den

What may look like two minnows swimming, are actually membranes of a fresh water mussel that is mimicking minnows to lure predator fish (small mouth bass, rock bass) close in. When they are close enough to the mussel, she senses their presence and sprays her larvae at the fish. Some of the larvae...

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11.112015June 26, 2020
Figuring Things Out

Figuring Things Out

By Barry BanksIn From the Director's Den

I once heard that you’ll never achieve or acquire what you really want until you figure out exactly what that is. It took me until...

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11.082015December 16, 2015
Skill Sets

Skill Sets

By Barry BanksIn From the Director's Den

Most folks develop a unique set of skills as they venture through life.  By the time they’re fifty years of age, a most people have...

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