When you retire at 55 from the Chrysler Corporation as its assistant treasurer, and then become a cherry farmer for the next three decades, what does that look like? Tom […]
Category Archives: Land Protection
Steichen: A Place for Family
Female bobcats won’t share their territory, and each one requires about five square miles to thrive. So when Mike and Teri Steichen glimpsed a bobcat skirting past their house north […]
Good Harbor Bay Property Donation: Sale Will Help Protect More Land and Water in Leelanau!
Your Dream Property? We are so fortunate that a generous family with deep ties to Leelanau has gifted a half-ownership over a spectacular five-acre residential lot on Good Harbor Bay […]
Beloved Leo Creek –Protected and Open to Explore
A Place for the Children Along Leo Creek There is a magical place near Suttons Bay, along beautiful Leo Creek, where Montessori children once built stick forts, picked blueberries and […]
Field Notes: Your Conservancy at Work
Did you know that nearly three-quarters of the lands we have protected are privately owned? In addition to the natural areas and preserves that you know and love, the […]
Deep Ties to the Northport Bluffs: The Garthe Farm
Sitting around the kitchen table with Kathy and Gene Garthe, learning about the farmland that has been in Gene’s family for four generations, what strikes me most is how deliberately […]
Palmer Woods: A Family’s Legacy
Dr. Dan Palmer grew up in Frankfort, and enjoyed camping out on the dunes north of town in a place called Devil’s Armchair and on the Sleeping Bear dunes. […]
Video: About Palmer Woods Forest Reserve
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Family Donates Land to Houdek Dunes Natural Area
Houdek Dunes, with its 100-year old birch trees and beautiful dunes of all types, is one of our most popular natural areas. Thanks to a generous summer family with deep […]
Gregory and Cherry Bay Orchards
The year was 2005. Emily Gregory and Mark Miezio had been dating for just about four months. They were living in Chicago where Mark consulted as a civil engineer and […]
