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 […]
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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
List of Landowner Stories
Ansorge: Solon Swamp Bardenhagen Farms: East Leland Bartle/Spaulding: Lake Leelanau WS Berkshire-Sprouse: Glen Lake Area Bronwyn Jones: Chippewa Run Buffum: near Cedar Carlson/Price: Lake Leelanau Waterhshed Casier Farm: Empire Charter […]
Lighthouse West: Critical Bird Habitat
Each spring, a host of warblers, tanagers, orioles and other colorful jewels of the skyfind their way into Leelanau County. Most of these birds have over wintered in the tropics; […]
Volunteering—One Volunteer’s Story
Every summer my family and I drive up from Florida to spend two weeks with my husband’s parents at their cottage on Lake Leelanau. Over 20 summers in Leland, the […]
Glen Lake/Crystal River Watershed: A Plan to Protect a Precious Resource
From our 2005 Summer Newsletter Glen Lake, framed by a dramatic rise of Sleeping Bear to the west, and surrounded by high-forested moraines to the east and south, presents one […]
Founders Society
The Founder’s Society recognizes those donors whose generous and long-term support has resulted in cumulative lifetime giving of $25,000 or more to any variety of funds. Many individuals in the […]
DeYoung Natural Area Video
All about the EMU Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and its partnership with the Leelanau Conservancy in preserving the DeYoung Natural Area farmstead buildings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbP6rRQnFmM&NR=1
Birds spotted or heard April 2006 at the Kehl Lake Natural Area
Along Densmore Road: Double-crested Cormorant Mute Swan Canada Goose Common Merganser Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Ruffed Grouse, heard Killdeer, heard Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, heard Downy Wood-pecker Northern […]
The Economics of Conservation (and Even More Important Stuff)–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 […]
