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Project Areas HABITATS Increasing Public/Private Partnerships The Wildlife Habitat Council is undertaking a 3-year demonstration project with the U.S. EPA Region 5 Division of Waste, Pesticides, and Toxics and Indiana Department of Environmental Management to increase the rate at which Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action facilities clean up and reuse contaminated lands using ecological enhancements. This project will be applied to Underground Storage Tank (UST/LUST), brownfields and Superfund sites, as well as other clean up programs. This regional demonstration project includes a public/private partnership committee, active demonstration sites across the region and strategic planning document prepared with input by partners. Learn more about the U.S. EPA Region 5 corrective action and pilot projects. SAVANNAS Ecological Restoration This is a regional effort to help restore the ecology of industrial properties by the Great Lakes National Program Office and the Wildlife Habitat Council on the northwest Indiana Lake Michigan basin, working with local steel, petroleum, and manufacturing industries and their communities. A goal of this program is to link industrial habitats to the larger landscape ecology of Northwest Indiana dune and swale ecosystems. This project is funded in part by the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office. EDUCATION Urban & Industrial Renewal The Wildlife Habitat Council is working with United States Steel Corporation's Gary Works and the City of Gary Department of Environmental Affairs in Gary, Indiana, using 30 acres of ecologically significant black oak savanna at Gary Works as training ground for ecological restoration and remediation. Funding and technical assistance comes from the State Urban and Community Forestry Program - State and Private Forestry Branch of the USDA Forest Service, and Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry. Also participating in this initiative are the Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center, Taltree Arboretum and Gardens and The Nature Conservancy.
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