Exciting News for Cross-Country Skiers! Thanks to Friends of Sleeping Bear and their fantastic volunteers, trails at Palmer Woods were groomed regularly! We hope to have more than 3.5 miles […]
Birds of Leelanau County Book
This book, treasured by many Leelanau Conservancy members, is an indispensable guide to everyone who loves birds. It was authored by Chip Francke and Leonard Graf. (Chip was the Leelanau […]
The Plant Life of Leelanau Conservancy’s Natural Areas
A Natural Observer As a little girl, Liana May spent hours hiking at Sleeping Bear Dunes with her mother, a Glen Arbor artist. “She was my first botany teacher,” says […]
Promise Keepers: McManus Farm Preserved
Promise Keepers Thirty six years ago, Mike and Janet McManus made a promise. They were about to purchase Karl Kiessel’s farm along Eagle Highway—an ideal fruit-growing site overlooking Lake Michigan. […]
McManus: Promise Keepers
Thirty six years ago, Mike and Janet McManus made a promise. They were about to purchase Karl Kiessel’s farm along Eagle Highway—an ideal fruit-growing site overlooking Lake Michigan. “Karl was […]
Are You Old Enough?
If you are 70 1/2 or older and you have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) you may be required to remove funds by the end of the year. For some, […]
210-Acre Lawton Farm Protected in Honor of Beloved Parents
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 […]
Fish and Farmland: How We Can Protect Water Quality and Our Agricultural Heritage
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. […]
Fall Panorama: Three Leelanau Conservancy Natural Areas to Take in A Lakeside View
Picture yourself on a beautiful trail, trees ablaze on either side. As you hike through filtered sunlight, bright orange, yellow and garnet colored leaves drift down, dotting your path. The […]
2016 Heritage Society Gathering
We were pleased to spend time with 50 members and friends of our Richard O. Ristine Heritage Society at our annual gathering on September 1st. The Heritage Society recognizes those who […]
