Imagine travel lanes along streams, woodland borders, ravines, even fencerows allowing birds and animals to move about unaltered, no interruptions of roads or developments. You begin to see the value of corridors and why Sycamore tries to keep them intact.
We’ ve all seen our share of roadkill animals: turtles, deer carcasses, flatted opossums and the like. This casualty is what happens when animals travel across busy roads. Road signs alert drivers that they are entering heavily traveled wildlife routes. They can help as traffic slows down anticipating some animal, but a natural corridor is better. Establishing natural corridors has helped us live more compatibly with animals.
When corridors include streams and wetlands, the conservation effort becomes even more important. These areas act as dynamic crossroads in ecosystems, providing a space where water, soil, energy, and organisms interact. This intersection drives essential functions that promote resilience, such as cycling nutrients, filtering contaminants, supporting biodiversity, and regulating streamflow.
The importance of these ecological corridors has driven Sycamore Land Trust’ s focus on land conservation in the Bean Blossom Creek area for almost 30 years. And the conservation of the local natural features has downstream significance as well, The White River, into which the Bean Blossom is a major tributary, supplies water to over a million Hoosiers.
None of the accomplishments of the SLT would be possible without the support from generous members. By creating a corridor in the Bean Blossom Creek watershed, and protecting the diverse ecosystems and species in it, they are creating a more connected and resilient future, for both us and the environment.
Hats off to the fine folks who work SLT and their conscientious members; and why not hike the Bean Blossom Creek conservation area this summer to see for yourself what a great natural area has been saved and managed for all of us to enjoy. You’ ll be impressed. •
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