Imagine that you are a brook trout. Anglers revere your very existence; Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway waxed poetic about you in his famous Nick Adams stories. […]
Category Archives: Water Quality
Leelanau Conservancy Receives $557,500 Grant to Protect Lake Leelanau Watershed
Great News For Everyone Who Loves Lake Leelanau! A $557,000 grant from the Clean Michigan Initiative (CMI) will help the Conservancy to purchase conservation easements–and therefore forever protect–lands that are […]
Water Monitor Volunteers
Going With the Flow: Leelanau Conservancy Volunteer Stream Samplers Kim and Dennis Armbruster are part of an important group of volunteers who monitor our lakes and streams every year, collecting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lake Leelanau Watershed Initiative Update
Centerville Township Lands Protected From our 2006 Summer Newsletter July 2006—Recent successful projects have created excitement and interest among area landowners. Most recently, the Conservancy purchased a 60-acre easement from […]
