Wesselman Woods has named a new leader. WNIN’s John Gibson has more:
The organization has chosen Amy Rhodes as its next executive director.
Rhodes is originally from Noblesville and first experienced Wesselman Woods when she visited as a student at the University of Evansville in the early 1990s.
Rhodes recently returned to Evansville with her husband, local artist Kevin Titzer, and will lead the group that oversees the nation’s largest urban old-growth forest.
Rhodes say she looks forward to the mission of connecting people to nature and protecting what she calls a “very special place.”
Wesselman says the woods are the largest old-growth forest within a city's limits in the U.S.