Our new 1.5-mile winding trail at DeYoung Natural Area is open! The trail takes you through farm fields, past 30-year-old heritage-variety apple trees and over a small stream. From the […]
Category Archives: Natural Areas
Leelanau State Park Expansion: For the Birds!
Watching for Eagles 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 […]
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 […]
Cedar River Preserve Grows to 440 Acres!
The ecological powerhouse that is our Cedar River Preserve got bigger this year with the completion of two projects. Why does it matter? The Cedar River Preserve and its extensive […]
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 […]
Cedar River 100 Acre Addition Profiled in Record Eagle
http://record-eagle.com/local/x75051490/100-acres-complete-swath-of-public-land
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; […]
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 […]
Q & A With Dr. Bill Scharf About Gull Island Preserve & Herring Gull Eggs
From our 2011 Summer Newsletter 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 […]
