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Conservancy Seeks Help From Property Owners Who are Planning to Build
“Every time I see a new driveway or house going in and we missed a chance to dig up the wildflowers there before the bulldozers arrived, it makes me crazy,” says Patty Shea, co-founder of the Leelanau Conservancy’s Wildflower Rescue Committee. “If people would just let us spend a few hours there ahead of time [...]
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Teicher Preserve Expansion Project
CBS Sunday Morning News Correspondent Martha Teichner has been all over the world. But there is no more important place to her than the cedar-and-tamarack-tangled shores of Lime Lake where she spent the first 10 years of her life. Nearly a decade ago, the Emmy-winning newswoman donated 20 acres near the lake to the Leelanau [...]
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Love of Leelanau Leads to Plan For Steady Giving
Sustainer Treva DeJong has always been a planner. She is a firm believer that big things can happen if they are tackled a little bit a time. This is a philosophy she shared with her late husband, Arn. As a result of her “eat an elephant one bite at a time,” Treva recently reached the [...]
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Say No to Sweet Woodruff
Pretty? Yes. Fragrant? Yes. Deadly to native wildflowers? Yes! When choosing plants at the nursery this spring, please don’t buy sweet woodruff. In the photo at right you can see what it has done to our Whaleback Natural Area in certain areas—covered the forest floor, crowding out native wildflowers like trillium, jack in the pulpit, [...]
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Restoration Work Begins at DeYoung Natural Area
Usually, folks at Leelanau Conservancy aren’t fond of seeing bulldozers in beautiful places. But in the case of the DeYoung Natural Area on Cedar Lake, the dozers will be a welcome sight this week. The activity is part of an ongoing effort to bring back a healthy, native landscape at DeYoung. “The restoration work that [...]
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Remembering John Fisher
John W. Fisher died on June 27 after a months-long battle with leukemia. He was nearly 94 years old. Many people in Leelanau County knew John well, and can relate stories about his various passions, which included farming, manufacturing, aeronautics, and much more. He was a familiar sight at Leelanau Conservancy events. He and Janice [...]
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Q & A With Dr. Bill Scharf About Gull Island Preserve & Herring Gull Eggs
Dr. Bill Scharf, a gull, tern, and colonial waterbird biologist, has dedicated much of his career to studying Herring Gulls on the Conservancy’s seven-acre Gull Island Bird Sanctuary, also known as Bellows Island, in Grand Traverse Bay. With over 30 years of research here, he has examined trends, noted abnormalities and has used this information [...]
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Cedar River 100 Acre Addition Profiled in Record Eagle
http://record-eagle.com/local/x75051490/100-acres-complete-swath-of-public-land
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New Trail at Kehl Lake Natural Area
Our “Old Birch Trail” at Kehl Lake Natural Area is completed! This summer, the Stewardship crew and volunteers cleared a beautiful new three-quarter-mile trail at our 180-acre KLNA, located just north of Northport. A bit of background: We’ve owned much of this land since 1990, and acquired an additional 40 acres just a few years [...]
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Martha Teichner Visits Teichner Preserve
The Raymonds and Martha Teichner: Preserving Family Heritage Together Lime Lake was the setting for a celebration last month. CBS newswoman Martha Teichner came to Leelanau to visit the expanded Teichner Preserve – the lands of her childhood home and a place that she has helped to preserve. We began the day at the Lime [...]
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