Celebrating 50 Years of Protecting & Preserving Land Donate Today
Celebrating 50 Years of Protecting & Preserving Land Donate Today
MISSION Legacy’s mission is to secure for current and future generations a land base for nature, agriculture, fresh water and recreation in Washtenaw and Jackson Counties and beyond. The staff partners to advance the strategic plan, including a goal set in 2008 to protect 25,000 acres of the most important lands in Washtenaw and Jackson […]
Click here to read our Preserve Update related to the COVID-19 pandemic Legacy protects a variety of types of land: rural and urban preserves, preserves with towering beech trees and carpets of spring wildflowers, and recreational lands. Legacy preserves are open for family-friendly outdoor recreational activities, such as hiking, bird watching, skiing, nature study, and photography. […]
Legacy is proud to have protected over 8,000 acres of land since 1971. Through conservation easements, public preserves, and partnerships with other conservation groups, we continue to create a gift of protected land for future generations. (Photo by Larry Doll – Don Doll who protected his centennial farm in 2017 with Legacy’s help) In Their Own Words […]
A sesquicentennial farm—in the same family for over 150 years—is now permanently protected by Legacy Land Conservancy. The farm, owned by brothers Tom and Jim Irwin, consists of 158 acres of rolling farmland, forest and wetlands off Grass Lake Road in Grass Lake, Michigan. In 2017 Tom and Jim inherited the farm from their late […]
Normally for our annual Land Partner Breakfast we love to get together with our conservation easement landowners, supporters, and staff for some pancakes, coffee, and good conversation. Unfortunately, this year, a large in-person gathering where we share food was still not possible, so instead, we gathered virtually on a Saturday morning in April. Although […]
Wow. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the political and social unrest to the environmental disasters devastating our planet, it’s amazing how much the world can change in a year. [Click here for the full report] When Legacy began the 2019-2020 fiscal year in July of 2019, we had emerged from a previous year full of […]