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Funding Opportunity: SMLC’s new Stewardship Fund |
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SMLC recently received a $75,000 challenge grant award from The Carls Foundation to startup a much-needed SMLC Stewardship Fund. This is a 1:1 match and SMLC needs to raise $75,000 by year-end in order to receive this donation.
If you are eager to help, please note “Stewardship Fund Campaign” when you mail in your check made payable to “Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy” or donate online here. This new public fund will help pay for ongoing conservation easement and nature preserve stewardship, and equipment and building repairs and maintenance.
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Registration Now OPEN
for Red Barn Bash!
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Virtual Kickoff: Saturday, October 2nd
At-Home Experience: October 2nd – 29th
Ticket Price: $50
In-Person Event: Saturday, October 23rd
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Place: Ypsilanti Freighthouse, Ypsilanti (in historic Depot Town)
Ticket Price: $75 combined In-person Event
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This year’s Red Barn Bash is all about the Naturehood – a place where we experience the beauty and wonder of local woods, wetlands and prairies and unite for conservation.
The new At-Home Experience will feature exclusive conservation videos and a fun SMLC Trivia Night that you can enjoy safely from home.
The In-Person Event attendees will gather to learn about SMLC’s recent conservation successes while enjoying local food and drinks. Event planning is in the works.
2021 RBB Corporate and Donor sponsorships are available and appreciated - click here for more information. |
Give to SMLC
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"Southeast Michigan: a beautiful place where people and nature
coexist in healthy, sustainable balance."
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SMLC's vision statement expresses how we feel about this special place we call home. Preserving natural areas and farmlands is good for all of us. SMLC is doing our part: more than 3,400 acres have been protected in this region through our efforts. You too can do your part by giving to the SMLC "We Care" Campaign.
To make a safe and secure online donation to SMLC, click here
To download a printable form you can mail to our office along with your personal check made payable to "Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy" click here
You can continue the momentum and help SMLC become even stronger:
Click here to read SMLC's
latest
appeal letter (PDF)
Click here to read our Spring 2021 Landmarks newsletter (PDF)
LeFurge Woods Nature Preserve, Superior Greenway, Washtenaw County.
Photo by Mark Even.
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SMLC's Safely Re-Open Plan
Like many of you, SMLC is looking forward to returning to our normal operational activities when it is safe for our staff, volunteers, and event participants to do so. This past summer, SMLC created a Safely Re-Open Plan and a COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan to help guide our return to work and events. SMLC's office continues to be closed to the general public until further notice and some of our staff are primarily working remotely.
Finally, SMLC's nature preserves continue to remain open to the public daily from dawn until dusk. If you visit an SMLC preserve, please practice social distancing (6 feet apart) and don't visit if you are sick.
Thank you.
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SMLC Acquires 80 acres in the
Northern Superior Greenway at end of 2019
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We are excited to announce that SMLC completed the purchase of 80 acres of woods, wetlands, and open space at the end of 2019. Through our partnership with the City of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, we have added this significant piece to the Superior Greenway, a 2,800-acre wildlife and public recreation corridor.
From the Press Release:
SMLC acquired the property from the Marissa A. Stepien Living Trust and Washtenaw County acquired a conservation easement on the property. The City was a major funder of both acquisitions. SMLC intends to name the new preserve, the Secrest Nature Preserve, in honor of a local family who have been instrumental in supporting land protection efforts in Superior Township and across the region for many years.
Click here to read the full Press Release.
Oak-hickory forest at the Secrest Nature Preserve. Photo by Mark Even.
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Superior
Township
Chapter
The Superior Township Chapter is dedicated to supporting SMLC's conservation efforts in Superior Township.
Click here to read the 2020 Superior Township Chapter Update Newsletter (color PDF).
See the Calendar of Events below for Superior Township Chapter and SMLC events, posted as they are scheduled.
For more information about the Superior Township Chapter, click here or contact Brenda Baker at bakerpartin@aol.com or Bill Secrest at (734) 482-5957
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Lots of Downy Woodpeckers make Superior Township their home. Photo by Charles Scott
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