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• Job Opportunity: Summer Communications Intern

  

  Posted May 13, 2013: Summer Communications Internship College students looking to gain some valuable resume-building experience working for a successful non-profit may apply for a full-time summer intern position with the Leelanau Conservancy.  This is a fast-paced, multi-tasking position and the intern will be given a lot of responsibility right away. In years past our [...]

  Posted 05/13/13 @ 11:26am — No Comments — Tagged: Uncategorized

• Water and the Future of the Great Lakes: Sign Up and Learn More!

  Click here to register! Visit our Speaker Series Page for More Information!

  Posted 04/08/13 @ 11:16am — 3 Comments — Tagged: 25th Anniversary, Events, News, Water Quality

• Maps of Leelanau Conservancy Protected Lands: 2012

   

  Posted 03/25/13 @ 4:33pm — No Comments — Tagged: Land Protection, Natural Areas, News, Uncategorized

• From the Director: Looking Ahead to the Next 25 Years

   In January nearly 100 members of the Leelanau Conservancy Sustainers Circle gathered at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. The topic for our program was a brief retrospective of our first 25 years. We tried to show what our Founders envisioned, how we evolved and grew in our thinking since 1988, and how those changes in [...]

  Posted 03/19/13 @ 10:32am — % Comment — Tagged: 25th Anniversary, From the Director, Land Protection, Natural Areas, News

• Leelanau State Park Expansion: For the Birds!

  This winter my husband, Dave, and I noticed several cars coming and going at the end of our road. We live along M-22 in LeelanauTownship, just south of Omena. Turns out an eagle and two of its young had taken up residence in a tree top at the edge of Omena Bay. The trio took [...]

  Posted 03/12/13 @ 10:37am — No Comments — Tagged: Land Protection, Lighthouse West Natural Area, Natural Areas, Stewardship

• Two Families Continue the Tradition of Farming at DeYoung Natural Area

  For five years, Samantha put her heart into a piece of land, establishing and growing an orchard using the innovative methods of permaculture.  When life circumstances required her to leave the land, she was devastated to watch all her hard work plowed back into the earth.  Then last spring, Samantha and her husband Christopher Graves [...]

  Posted 03/07/13 @ 12:21pm — No Comments — Tagged: DeYoung Natural Area, Farmland Stories, Stewardship

• Our 25th Anniversary Year Begins!

  

  On a windy but beautiful day last week our staff trudged over to Lake Michigan to take this photo. We’re excited to announce that 2013 marks our 25th Anniversary year! Some great things are planned to collectively remember and celebrate our accomplishments as we also look forward to the next 25 years. Watch our website [...]

  Posted 01/15/13 @ 4:00pm — No Comments — Tagged: 25th Anniversary, News

• Clay Cliffs: We Did It!

  

  Dear Friends WE DID IT!!! THANKS TO YOU, WE HAVE MET OUR GOAL FOR CLAY CLIFFS! It has been so exciting to feel your overwhelming support and to know that we are now in the position to protect this spectacular property for all time. Clay Cliffs seems to have touched people from throughout the peninsula [...]

  Posted 01/02/13 @ 1:18pm — No Comments — Tagged: Uncategorized

• Leelanau Enterprise Lauds Clay Cliffs Project

  

  The Leelanau Enterprise, Thursday, December 8, 2012 Crary Property a Miracle Present You won’t find a working oil well in Leelanau County, but you will find many of the benefits of petroleum extraction. Twelve benefits, to be exact. That’s the number of projects funded by the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund here since 1976. The [...]

  Posted 12/12/12 @ 9:01am — No Comments — Tagged: Uncategorized

• Clay Cliffs Project Awarded Up to $2.9M

  

  From our 2012 Spring Newsletter December 2011–The spectacular Clay Cliffs property, with its 1,700 feet of shoreline on both Lake Michigan and North Lake Leelanau, is two steps closer to becoming a public natural area. Partners in the project, the Leelanau Conservancy and Leland Township, received two pieces of good news recently: 1) the Michigan [...]

  Posted 12/01/12 @ 8:01am — No Comments — Tagged: Clay Cliffs Fund, Land Protection