Protecting and preserving Southern Michigan

Stewardship Program

 Legacy Land Conservancy’s Stewardship Program provides the care our lands need to stay protected and vibrant ecosystems. Our mostly volunteer program manages 188 acres of preserve properties and monitors over 300 acres of conservation easements. See below for a list of upcoming projects, or visit our volunteer page to find out how you can participate.

2011 Stewardship Project list:
100% Monitoring on 63 conservation agreement lands.
Conduct botanical surveys at all five of our preserves.
New entrance signs at all of our preserves.
Install a boardwalk through the wet portion of Creekshead Preserve and improve the trail entrance.
Maintain the invasive free status of Creekshead Preserve.
Expand the parking area at Floyd & Mabel Johnson Preserve.
Remove invasive shrubs from the buttonbush swamp at the Floyd & Mabel Johnson Preserve.
Beckwith’s oak/hickory forest will be invasive free by 2013.
Launch our Mapping Protected Lands Project (see more).

Volunteers removing invasive autumn olive

Volunteers removing invasive autumn olive

Volunteers cutting invasive buckthorn

Volunteers cutting invasive buckthorn

Trailblazing volunteer stewards at the Johnson Preserve

Trailblazing volunteers at the Johnson Preserve

Sharon Hills Preserve

A wetland located in the southeast corner of the Sharon Hills Preserve.

stewardship workday supplies unloaded

A stewardship workday begins with the unloading of supplies.

A volunteer unloads wood chips

A volunteer steward unloads wood chips for trails