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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We had a great evening on the Wabash River for our second annual Float Jam! Thanks to Annie Hatke and Rosie Inman for jamming while we floated the 4.5 miles from Davis Ferry to Tapawingo Park in West Lafayette, IN.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wabash Riverfest is coming up July 11! If you're near Lafayette, IN checkout our activities for some riverfront fun! wabashriverfest.com

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Here in central IN, Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are wrapping up their blooms now, and starting to go to seed. They only have 4 seeds per flower, and these seeds are easy to see. Once they turn dark brown, then they're ready to be collected! They fall out easily, so watch closely!

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Ginny Stibolt @ginnystibolt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Jack-in-the-pulpit(Arisaema triphyllum) is native to most of eastern North America. Pollinated by fungus gnats, they’re “sequential hermaphrodites” - they change from male to female! Young plants are male, but as the plant matures, the spadix (aka “Jack”) produces female flowers. Photos by Lily Byrd

2 photos of the insides of a jack-in-the pulpet flowers. The one on the left is labeled pistilate/female flower and a hand is holding the flower open. At the base of the spathe are small green berry-like structures. The leaf-like structure around the spathe has vertical stripes that vary in color from whitish to speckled maroon. The photo on the right is similar, but is labeled staminate /male flower and the structures at the base of the spathe are small and whitish.

Photo of 2 jack-in-the-pulpit flowers in wooded area and over shadowed by the tri-foliated leaves. The flowering structure is an upright cylinder with one side elongated to form a roof over the cylinder. The top of the spathe is just visible above the cylinder.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We had a wonderful morning with the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers rally hosted by Purdue. We discussed #nativeplant restoration, invasive plant management, and a future ADA accessible trail and a hiking trail. It was a beautiful morning to be in nature 💙

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

What's your #nativeplant accomplishment this year? We 💚funded an HOA turf-to-native conversion 💚20-acre fallow field to prairie conversion 💚helped host weekly invasive workdays 💚helped landowners swap 215 invasives with natives 💚hosted a native seed collection workshop 💚winter sowed a boatload

grid of four photos. photo 1: milk jugs and clear plastic tubs with holes in the top. These are filled halfway with potting soil and planted with native seeds. photo 2: young woman wearing a blue headscarf and holding an arm full of cut invasive honeysuckle plants. photo 3: group of people holding paper bags and looking at seed heads from plants they collected. It's a fall day with golden sunlight and the people are dressed for brisk weather. photo 4: man in a baseball cap and jacket using a seed spreading device to spread native seeds in the snow in a neighborhood. There is a sign in the foreground stating "Meadow-morphosis in progress."

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We had a great workday killing invasive honeysuckle at a local city park with volunteers and partner orgs. We came out muddy and our park came out healthier! Spotted some #nativeplants rue anemone and waterleaf. Hoping they flourish without the invasives!

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We hosted a #nativeplant seed collection workshop last night. We toured several locations in Lafayette, IN to learn about nature-based solutions, and local restoration expert Zach Neff taught us about seed collection and processing techniques. What a great, fall evening!

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

If you're in the Lafayette, IN area, we're hosting a native plant seed collection workshop next week on Oct 22! Check it out and sign up: wabashriver.net/watershed-pr...

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Dr Emma Rehn @bluerehn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Illustrating water quality challenges - this is some of my recent work showing how fire, roads & tracks, and eroding gullies can impact water quality (& how a gully can be repaired!) These were created for my work with TropWATER & their collab with the Cape York Water Quality Partnership #SciArt

A digital illustration of a wooded hilly landscape with a river running through the middle. On the left, a burn from earlier in the dry season has left trees alive and is not eroding. On the right, a hot late dry season burn has charred the landscape, killing trees and eroding charcoal and soil into the river

A digital illustration showing a creek crossing a dirt road, with rain eroding channels into the road, forming a downstream gully and releasing soil in to the river below

A two-panel illustration showing an eroded alluvial gully releasing dirty water and a remediated gully, covered in vegetation with a rock chute to channel the water flow

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 03/10/2025

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Blue mist flower (Conoclinium coelestinum) is looking dreamy in the morning sunlight 😍😘 This blue-purple midwest native flower is usually about 2 feet tall and likes dappled sunlight. It usually prefers medium-wet soils, but these pictures were taken in a bone-dry backyard. #bloomscrolling

blueish-purple wildflowers in dappled sunlight

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us. Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects! Get some to hang in your neighborhood! Squidfacts.net

A poster hanging on a brick wall that says Leave your leaves for lightning bugs! with lightning bugs on new purple asters . There's too-small-to-read text in a box with the heading Lightning bugs are struggling to survive, help them thrive by taking these actions

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

We had an amazing first Float Jam on August 2, 2025! So many thanks to our talented musicians, our intrepid audio service, our chill fishing boat captains, and our enthusiastic audience! Also, big thanks to our community partners for making this amazing event possible!

Man wearing a straw hat and playing guitar in a fishing boat on a river. People in kayaks and rafts are paddling next to the fishing boat and listening to the music.

Woman playing guitar in a fishing boat on a river. People in rafts are paddling next to the fishing boat and listening to the music.

A large canoe holding 10 people, rafts, and kayaks paddle down a river.

Woman playing guitar in a fishing boat on a river. There are large speakers in boat so people in other boats can enjoy the music.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Cup plants are in bloom right now! Native to central IN and much of the midwest US, cup plants have unique leaves that form a small basin that captures water. Critters use these tiny basins as a water source. #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A short clip of Kelsey Patton performing at our first ever Float Jam!

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We hosted our first Float Jam this past Saturday, and it was amazing! We had about 170 participants float 4.5 miles of the Wabash River while listening to two local, live musicians perform. Couldn't have asked for a better August afternoon!

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We are cooking up a new event for Lafayette, IN this Saturday. FLOAT JAM is paddling the Wabash River meets live music. We have a few open spots left, if you're in central IN and want to join us! wabashriver.net/floatjam/

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Float Jam | Wabash River Enhancement Corporation

Float the Wabash and listen to some local folk music.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We are kicking off a new, incredible experience on the Wabash River on Aug 2 – FLOAT JAM! It's a 4.5 mile paddling trip on the Wabash-meets live music. If you're near Tippecanoe County, IN, learn more and sign up: wabashriver.net/floatjam/

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If you're near Lafayette, IN, Wabash Riverfest is coming up on July 12! Celebrate the longest free flowing river in the eastern US with canoe races, paddleboarding, conservation education, drawing classes, photography workshops, and live music! Free t-shirt for volunteers! wabashriverfest.com

Enthusiastic woman points to her orange t-shirt. T-shirt has an image of a fish and reads "Wabash Riverfest 2025, Greater Lafayette, Indiana."

A compilation of 4 photos. Photo 1 is a group of people rafting on a river. Photo 2 is a man holding a re-tailed hawk. Photo 3 is 2 musicians, one playing guitar and one playing accordion. Photo 4 is two canoes racing. Text overlay reads "Wabash Riverfest. July 12, 9am-4pm. Tapawingo Park."

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If you're near Lafayette, IN on July 12, check out Wabash Riverfest in Tapawingo Park. Volunteers get a free t-shirt designed by a local artist. Volunteer for 2 or more shifts and get a free river-friendly gift! wabashriverfest.com

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Did you leave 1-2 feet of dead stems behind from last year's plants during your spring garden cleanup? The white, fluffy debris on the leaves in these photos is from the insects burrowing out a hole in the stems. Stem-nesting bees use dead plant stalks to lay their eggs.

3 photos of leaves with white sawdust on them and plant stems that have holes from insects burrowing in to the stem. Text reading "insects using last year's stems for shelter."

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We had a volunteer workday at Battlefield Memorial in Tippecanoe, IN along the Wabash Heritage Trail yesterday. Purdue student volunteers chipped away at the burning bush infestation along Burnett Creek. We also got to admire the amazing #nativeplants spring ephemerals! So many tiny pants! 🙌

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 11/04/2025

Signs of spring, ranked.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Why do you plant natives? We love seeing LIFE in our urban spaces, and being an active participant in the life on land we manage.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Are you noticing anything greening up in your native plant gardens? It's so exciting to go poke around in the dead leaves and find plants that are waking up for spring. 💚 We found hepatica, bluebells, wood poppy , and bloodroot here in central IN. What #nativeplants are you seeing?

small white flowers with a yellow center growing out of leaf litter

green leaves of a plant growing in leaf litter

green leaves of a plant with small pink flower buds

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WBW. @washbearswares.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

birbs #birds #birdart #SciArt #art #artist

3 copper wirewrapped pendants in the shape of a cardinal, a crane, and a hummingbird.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 21/03/2025

new track on our great lake greatest hits album 🔊

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Round 2 of hauling tires out of the Celery Bog in West Lafayette! There's still more to go, and we'll be back. 😎 @tcpwq.bsky.social

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 14/03/2025

Reasons you should love trees: 🌱 Clean the air 🌱 Provide habitat 🌱 Filter water 🌱 Boost your mood 🌱 Reduce extreme heat 🌱 Provide sage advice

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Temps are rising, the sun is shining, and our native gardens are starting to wake up. You may be itching to get out and start "spring garden clean-up," but there are still lots of pollinators snoozing soundly in the stems of your #nativeplants. Leave ~24in of stem for this year's larvae! 💚🐝

the back end of a native bee poking out of the hollow stem of a plant, with the text "Shhhh...let them sleep in"

graphic showing "How to create habitat for stem-nesting bees." Leave dead flower stalks in-tact over the winter. In spring, cut back dead flower stalks leaving stem stubble of varying height, 8 to 24 inches, to provide nest cavities. Female bees find cut or naturally occurring open stems, start a nest, then lay an egg on the pollen balls. Larvae eat the pollen.

continued graphic on stem-nesting bees. In summer, new growth of the perennial flowering plants hides the stem stubble. Bee larvae develop in cut dead stems during the growing season. In fall and winter, leave the stem stubble and this year's dead flowers. Bees hibernate in stems during the winter.

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Nigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat. Two pairs of beavers are making a new wild home in Studland #UK & their unrestricted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #nature #climatecrisis

Image is of a meandering river. Half way along is a beaver dam. The waters before the dam are discoloured with soils sediment. After the dam the waters are clear.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

WREC staff had a great time helping NICHES Land Trust burn some land at Fall Creek Gorge, IN. 🔥plays an important role in ecosystems, and Indigenous people have been using 🔥 to manage landscapes for thousands of years. We're always humbled to be able to help bring back good fire to our ecosystems.

low fire burning leaves on the forest floor

land steward wearing fire safety gear watching a low fire burn across the forest floor

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's #blackhistorymonth and we're recognizing black trailblazers in natural history, conservation, and outdoor recreation. Alexis Nikole Nelson, aka Black Forager, makes foraging accessible to everyone, and emphasizes the historical significance of foraging in Black and Indigenous cultures.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You should buy valentines IMMEDIATELY so they have a prayer of getting to you by Friday I'm going to the post office this afternoon. They are CUTE! They are EDUCATIONAL! They support @skypeascientist.bsky.social!!! Get 'em here squidfacts.bigcartel.com

a picture of 4 valentines, one with a rosy maple moth that says "are you a lamop becuase i wanna be around u" and another that has a praying mantis that says "you look good enough to eat" and then 2 burry in the background, and the words on top say "LOVE BUGS Valentines sales support skype a scientist"

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It's #blackhistorymonth and we're recognizing black trailblazers in natural history, conservation, and outdoor recreation. Shelton Johnson has worked as a park ranger for the National Parks Service since 1987 and speaks beautifully about the need for all people to access natural spaces.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today is #CommunityEngagementDay and WREC's executive director is spending the day at the Indy State House for Trails Day. We're informing legislators and the public about WREC's efforts to enhance the Wabash River Corridor and build the Wabash River Greenway.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A big thank you goes out to all those volunteers who helped us with our invasive brush stacking workday last Friday! We got a lot of work done to prep for #nativeplant seeds to go down. Folks near Lafayette, IN can learn about volunteer events with us at wabashriver.net/events/

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We had a great time at the no-till planter clinic hosted by Tippecanoe Soil & Water Conservation District this morning. Thanks to Strasburger Farms for hosting everyone and showing off the equipment modifications they've made to help make no-till and cover crops successful in central IN.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"A $25 million federal infrastructure grant was approved Tuesday by the Tippecanoe County Commissioners through a unanimous vote, two years after the county applied for the grant." Includes: ✔️pedestrian bridge ✔️new boardwalk, ✔️side paths, ✔️trail facilities www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/g...

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Tippecanoe County Commissioners finalize $25 million infrastructure grant

The Tippecanoe County Commissioners approved a 25 million dollar infrastructure grant for new bridges and trails along Wabash River.

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Kévin Jean @kvn-jean.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚲🚶Every time I come across this diagram, I find it so perfect that I can't help but share it again. Source: www.who.int/europe/publi...

Visual summary of the benefits of walking and cycling for the environment, health and mobility

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We gave a crash course on winter sowing to West Lafayette, IN AmeriCorps members. Collecting native plant seeds and winter sowing in milk jugs is a great way to grow your own hardy native plants for really cheap. You can get 4-6 plugs from one jug easily.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

We watched some native seed go down in the snow this past Friday at an HOA in West Lafayette, IN as part of a project funded by our cost share program. It'll take a few years for this native seed mix to bloom, but it will be worth it! Thanks to Blackbird Farms HOA for reducing rainwater runoff.

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It's NYE! Get outside tomorrow and enjoy a First Day Hike. Here are some options for Greater Lafayette, IN hiking: www.indianatrails.com/wabash-herit... nicheslandtrust.org/map events.in.gov/event/first-... ag.purdue.edu/department/f... wabashanderiecanal.org/visit/trails/

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Wabash River Enhancement Corporation @wabashriverec.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

WREC staff recently helped NICHES Land Trust with a controlled burn at their Shawnee Bottoms Nature Preserve, located in the floodplain of the Wabash River in Fountain County, IN. This 🔥 helped clear vegetation so NICHES can over-seed additional natives and diversify existing warm season grasses.

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