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 […]
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Leelanau Conservancy Receives Top Award from Land Trust Alliance
September 30, 2012 Your Leelanau Conservancy – along with the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy – won the Land Trust Alliance’s Land Trust Excellence award tonight. Here are board chair […]
Wildflowers, Warblers, Water and Wonder!
Wildflowers, Warblers, Water and Wonder! May 19, 2012–Kay Charter claims not to be a bird expert. Now, I don’t claim to be a bird expert either, but she’s definitely a […]
Glen Noonan Protects 506 Acres and Beloved Family Lands
From our 2012 Spring Newsletter February 2012-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 Leelanau Conservancy has been Awarded Accredited Status
From our 2008 Fall Newsletter The Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance (LTA), announced last week (September 19, 2008) that the Leelanau Conservancy has […]
We Can’t Afford Not to Protect Land–2005
A Record-Eagle Forum by Brian Price, Director This article ran as a Forum piece in the Traverse City Record Eagle in December, 2005. – – – The Leelanau Conservancy is […]
Essay on Preserving the Crystal River–2005
From our 2005 Annual Report Last week the Enterprise reported on the final transfer of the two parcels of land along the Crystal River from the Leelanau Conservancy to the […]
Leelanau: Drawn by the Sum of its Parts
From our 2005 Annual Report February 2005–When my husband, Dave, and I first moved here 20 years ago we didn’t call Leelanau County “Leelanau County.” Instead, everyone I knew called […]
Crystal River Forever Preserved
From our Fall 2005 Newsletter The journey to preserve the beloved Crystal River near Glen Arbor is over. In mid-October, 2005, federal funds appropriated for the river’s transfer into the […]
A Day in the Life of a Wildflower Rescuer
The night before the Wildflower Rescue outing I felt strangely like a kid anticipating a field trip back in elementary school. I laughed at myself for having the same nervous […]
