At least one hunter killed a deer last year on the 555-acre Crown Hill Cemetery and Funeral Home, which dates to the 1860s.

The planned cemetery housing the cremated remains of military veterans and their relatives will be moved to an adjacent parcel.

About 20 protesters huddled in the cold at Crown Hill North Woods, in what became a successful attempt to save a section of old-growth forest in downtown Indianapolis.

Many opponents of the project want the columbarium to be built, but not at the expense of the city's largest old-growth forest.

In her ruling, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson wrote that the Indiana Forest Alliance's overstated the impact of the VA project on a 15-acre parcel in the cemetery's North Woods.

The lawsuit claims that VA administration violated four key parts of the National Environmental Policy Act.

The Laura Hare Charitable Trust is stepping forward to save what it calls an ecological jewel - a forested parcel with very old trees that represent a piece of Indiana's heritage.

Hundreds have called congressional representatives concerned about the VA's Crown Hill Cemetery plans to remove trees estimated to be between 300 and 500 years old.

The purpose is to get people thinking ahead-from what they want to accomplish, to end-of-life care, to funeral arrangements-and to spark conversations.