Heartwood Council

Corina Lang

Illinois

Although Corina Lang initially became involved in environmental activism to help protect the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois as a member of R.A.C.E, her connection with Heartwood has led her to be concerned with issues in other folks’ back yards, not just her own, such as Mountain Top Removal. Currently she is embroiled in the efforts to protect her own neck of the woods from fracking and strip mining. Life interests include dancing and guerilla theater.

Lora Kemp

Indiana

Taught at a young age to appreciate nature, Lora had the advantage of her grandfather being one of the founders of Indiana’s first state park, McCormick’s Creek State Park. In the 1960’s her parents helped make the horse trails in the Owen-Putnam State Forest and other areas in the state. Raised in Putnam County, Lora grew up in the woods and river banks of the Eel River watershed instilling in her the great need to save natural areas. She attended Indiana University. A lifelong environmentalist, a natural woodsman, and a forest defender, Lora has worked with the IFA, Heartwood, and the Owen-Putnam Friends of the Forest to help defend Indiana’s wild nature. Through the years, she expanded her forest outreach and knowledge from state forests to National forests. Lora has helped to build alliances with other like minded organizations to have a more powerful voice together. Having attended many legislative activities, she has spoken on the House floor at the IN State House working to defend the forest. With a passion to defend natural, wild areas, and protect water, she has been active with the forest defense since 2016. She has been the archivist for the IFA studying 30 years of forest activities across the state of Indiana. Through Heartwood and IFA she has expanded her forest knowledge, found her ability to be a citizen scientist, and made lifelong friendships.

John Wallace

Illinois

John is a founding member of southern Illinois’ Shawnee Forest Defense!, a group of grassroots organizers trying to protect the Shawnee National Forest and the 27 year old Shawnee Chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society. He is currently the Shawnee Audubon Chapter president and serves on the Land Protection and Stewardship Committee of IAS, the oldest, non-governmental conservation organization in Illinois. John has a BS in Plant and Soil Science from SIU and has been known to portray the writer, mountaineer and conservationist, John Muir, in living history performances.

Don Scheiber

Indiana

Don Scheiber lives in Lafayette, IN and has primarily been a peace, labor, and community activist. Retired from 28 years as labor liaison for United Way, he started Food Finders Food Bank in 1980, and became an “ environmentalist- come – lately” and served as a board member of the Hoosier Environmental Council for several years, Vice President of Tree Lafayette, and recently a member of NICHES—a multi-county nature conservancy type group.

Don was a “back-to-the-land” hippie drop-out in the 70’s and is interested in intentional communities and attempts at living sustainably and organically.

Roberta Schonemann

Indiana

Roberta Schonemann is a longtime civil libertarian activist/armchair environmentalist, writing letters-to- editors, signing petitions, attending local rallies. As editor of the Lafayette Independent (2010 – 2017), she supplied material for the 2-monthly pages devoted to environmental issues raising the alarm about global warming. Recently she enjoined an unsuccessful attempt to prevent further expansion of a waste treatment plant along Indian Creek which borders her property, 10 acres outside West Lafayette, 80% of which is left undeveloped.