This creative project explores the principles of permaculture, within the context of environmental sustainability, applying them to the development of the master plan for Camp Goodfellow. Camp Good Fellow is the also known as the Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center, part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore located in northwestern Indiana.This project involves design of an overnight environmental education facility within the Goodfellow site. Permaculture principles are applied to the development of a third camp cluster at Goodfellow, focused on sustainable systems demonstration. This demonstration provides further direction for the existing draft concept master plan and generates typical site details. The project shows how concepts of permaculture can be integrated and oriented towards sustainability education in the northern Indiana landscape. / Department of Landscape Architecture

<p dir="ltr">Crescent Dune Beach, a stretch of coastline along the southern shore of Lake Michigan in the Indiana Dunes National Park, is among the most erosive beaches in the world (Luijendijk et al. 2018; Robinson et al. 2024). East of the beach, the Michigan City Harbor is impeding the natural littoral transport of sediment. The erosion at Crescent Dune has been compounded by near-record high water levels in 2020, which continue to remain above average. A series of topo-bathymetric surveys involving single beam sonar, backpack terrestrial LiDAR, and a GNSS survey rod were conducted as part of a USACE beach nourishment monitoring program. In addition to monitoring the morphology of sand from a subaerial nourishment, this study aims to determine changes to the subaerial beach, nearshore, and Mt. Baldy sand dune through comparisons to historical topo-bathymetric data between 2012 and 2023. The subaerial beach volume change between 2012 and 2020, coinciding with a steady rise in water levels, was the highest compared to other periods, ranging from -9 m3/m/yr to -122 m3/m/yr. Additionally, subaerial erosion is most pronounced along the western sections of Crescent Dune Beach. Sand volume losses for the nearshore region exceeded -100 m3/m/yr, and cross-shore profiles showed a continuing trend of down-cutting in the seafloor between 2012 and 2024. Finally, the crest of the Mt. Baldy sand dune is steadily retreating southward, posing the risk of inundation to National Park Service (NPS) property. The results of this study provide valuable insights into the extent of beach rebuilding and erosion since the near record-high water mark in 2020, reveal morphological changes to the Mt. Baldy sand dune, and contribute to improved outcomes for future nourishment projects. Routine beach nourishments at this site have greatly mitigated erosion, though it remains a concern. </p>

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 127 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Indiana’s state park system developed as a result of state centennial celebrations in 1916. Government officials created state parks as a permanent memorial that glorified the Hoosier pioneer spirit, which celebrated actions of white colonists as they confronted challenges of the new industrial twentieth century. However, this memorialization erased the Lenni Lenape, Miami, Potawatomi, and Shawnee tribes played in the state’s history. This paper analyzes the Indiana statehood centennial celebrations as sites of erasure of Native American contributions to state and national history. It examines how Richard Lieber, the founder of the parks system, and others built the state park system to understand the ways individual state parks commemorated that Hoosier pioneer spirit at the expense of Native American voices. Turkey Run, McCormick’s Creek, Clifty Falls, Indiana Dunes, Pokagon, Spring Mill, and Lincoln State Parks are critiqued in this analysis to illustrate how each park encompasses and presents the story of colonization.