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Tom & Jane Dustin built a legacy from this…

Their persistence and determination saved natural places in Indiana and across the nation.

The Dustins helped launch ACRES Land Trust.
Inspired by the budding environmental movement, Fort Wayne advertising manager Tom Dustin, his wife Jane, and ten others pooled $5 each to establish the nonprofit ACRES Land Trust in 1960. For 32 years, Jane Dustin led ACRES, then an all-volunteer organization, the oldest and largest land trust in Indiana.

Local citizens Tom and Jane Dustin and ten others established ACRES Land Trust, Indiana’s first, in 1960. Pictured left to right are ACRES founders Ethyle Bloch, Jane Dustin, John Klotz (with binoculars), Jim Barrett, Florence Klotz, Werner Reifsteck and Tom Dustin.

ACRES safeguards natural areas forever.
In 1961, the fledgling ACRES Land Trust acquired its first property, the Edna W. Spurgeon Reserve. Today, ACRES protects hundreds of forests, streams, fields and natural features as well as working land in our region.


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Learn more

  • Watch ACRES Land Trust’s Cedar Creek Corridor video
  • 2019 Cedar Creek acquisition update
  • ACRES Land Trust plants pace-setting 55,000 trees, reforesting 106 acres
  • Tom & Jane Dustin built a legacy from this home
  • Digging our region’s natural groove: Cedar Creek’s Tunnel Valley
  • View from the Canopy
  • 2018 summer land management intern notes
  • A surprise encounter
  • ACRES Land Trust, partners, fight invasive Japanese stiltgrass

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