Aerial treatments to slow the spread of gypsy moths are planned to begin the week of May 9 at sites in Kosciusko, LaPorte, St. Joseph and Whitley counties.

Mayors Scott Long of Wabash, Gabriel Greer of Peru and Dave Kitchell of Logansport want the state's Department of Natural Resources to give the Eel River the "Indiana Scenic River" designation.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources plans to set the fire between March 21-25 within Brown County State Park's little-visited 10 O'clock Line Nature Preserve.

Efforts to limit logging in Indiana's state forests have once again failed to advance out of committee at the statehouse.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will give the federal funds to 12 cities, towns and nonprofits for urban forestry projects.

McCormick's Creek in Spencer, about 55 miles southwest of Indianapolis, and Turkey Run in in Marshall about 60 miles west of Indianapolis, became Indiana's first two state parks on Dec. 16, 1916.

The Department of Natural Resources says the parks will close temporarily for the two-day hunts on Nov. 16 and 17, and Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

The IndianaShipwrecks.org website includes a recreation of the wreck of the J.D. Marshall, which sank in 1911, and three other shipwrecks in the lake.

The DNR wants people who have at least 10 acres and are willing to set up a provided trail camera on their property this fall for a study called "Snapshot IN."

Indiana lawmakers in April approved using $24 million to build an inn at Potato Creek State Park. The park about 10 miles southwest of South Bend is one of Indiana's most popular state parks.