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Wildflower Rescue Annual Plant Sale on the Leland Village Green
Friday, May 25th to Sunday, May 28th (Memorial Weekend) Wildflower Rescue Plant SaleThe 19th Annual Plant Sale on the Village Green in Leland is on tap for Memorial Day Weekend! Now is your chance to purchase native ferns, trillium and more along with a selection of native trees and shrubs provided by locally owned Four [...]
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Clay Cliffs Project Awarded Up to $2.9M
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 Natural Resources Trust Fund awarded [...]
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Conservancy Partners with Three Families Again for New Farmland Protection
For the third year running, the Leelanau Conservancy has partnered with three farm families to successfully apply for funding to conserve their farms. With the help of more than $1.1 in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP), these family farms, totaling 383 acres will be permanently protected. These [...]
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The Economics of Conservation (and Even More Important Stuff) — April 2012
We are undoubtedly living in tough times, a time when frivolous expenditures of all types are frowned-upon, at least publicly. Metrics and dashboards are used to gauge the success of the policies that are meant to rebuild our state’s economy. Certainly the implication is that things which cannot be measured accurately literally cannot be valued. [...]
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Glen Noonan Protects 506 Acres and Beloved Family Lands
Posted 2-28-2012–By Carolyn Faught– When I first moved to Leelanau County 25 years ago, one of the names I kept seeing in the newspaper was Glen Noonan’s. At the time, he owned the county landfill, a gravel pit, and a whole lot of farmland. I got the impression that if Leelanau County had a patriarch, [...]
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FarmAbility II Application Round Beginning April 2, 2012
March 15, 2012.–When Buzz Long and Tom Nelson arrived at the offices of the Leelanau Conservation District in Lake Leelanau on an early Monday morning after an early March snowstorm in 2009, they weren’t sure what to expect. “I remember standing there with Buzz and a cup of coffee, staring at all that snow outside [...]
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Employment Opportunity at Leelanau Conservancy
Employment Opportunity at the Leelanau Conservancy: Early Detection/Rapid Response Crew Leaders and Members. Project Description: The Leelanau Conservancy is a member of the Eastern Lake Michigan Coastal Invasives project which continues and expands an effort begun in 2010 to survey for, apply treatment to, and follow-up monitor invasive terrestrial plant populations along 400 miles of [...]
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Call for Expression of Interest: Farming DeYoung
Please note: letter of expressions of interest are due March 30th, 2012. Full applications due October 1st, 2012. The Leelanau Conservancy owns and manages part of the DeYoung Natural Area as a working farm. Located roughly 5 miles north of Traverse City in Elmwood Township along Cherrybend Road, the farm has been in our ownership [...]
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Farm Families Protect Prime Fruit Growing Locale
November 2011–In a world where optimism seems to be in short supply these days, it was heartening to sit down with fruit farmers Jeff and Nita Send and their partners, Scott and Penny Emeott. The Suttons Bay farmers had taken a break from apple picking on a steel-grey October day to talk about the [...]
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Protecting Leelanau—And Our Country
Captain Claude Lambert has been a member since 2003, but this year he decided to join the Sustainer Circle because “I love Leelanau County, and it’s one place I can come back to and it’s still the same,” he says. The 30-year-old captain has done tours all over the world and stopped into our office [...]
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