Friends of Cedar Creek work to ensure the highest water quality
for Cedar Creek and to protect and preserve its watershed including
geologic features, native plants and animals.
In 1999, Cedar Creek Wildlife Project's sister organization
ACRES Land Trust
received a $5000 IPALCO grant to determine the nursery status of the endangered
Indiana bat in the Cedar Creek corridor. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the area is
a potential nursery habitat.
If the ACRES study confirms that the presence of the bat and / or nursery trees, about
11 miles of Cedar Creek riparian habitat could be given additional protection.
Update 2001: Investigations made in the summer of 2000 did not find Indiana bats.
But the Cedar Creek corridor is definately a home to other bat species.
