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Connect with us! Legacy offers many opportunities throughout the year to join us at a workday or event. We hope you will join us for one soon. Most opportunities require an RSVP. A link to RSVP is included with each detailed event listing. This helps us communicate with you about the event or inform you of a cancellation or postponement.
If you have a question about an upcoming event, please contact our office at 734.302.5263.
On September 17 from 10am-11:30am, Legacy Land Conservancy will be teaming with the Stockbridge Community Clean Up Club for a workday at Beckwith Preserve. Join us to help clear brush and remove the invasive species autumn olive. Volunteers (using loppers and hand-saws) will cut back shrubs to two-inch stumps and help haul cut plant material. […]
On October 1st from 10am-12pm, Legacy Land Conservancy’s stewardship team will be hosting a work day at the Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Preserve. Join us and help remove the woody invasive species common buckthorn, honeysuckle, and autumn olive. Volunteers (using loppers and hand-saws) will cut back shrubs to two-inch stumps and help haul cut plant […]
Join Legacy Land Conservancy, Pittsfield Township, and River Raisin Watershed Council in learning about a magical, yet common wetland; vernal pools! Vernal pools are wetlands that are small and often seasonally-flooded, meaning they do not contain water all year round. They play a critical part in maintaining the health of our northern forest ecosystems, but […]
On April 27th from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, Legacy Land Conservancy will be leading a spring cleaning at Beckwith Preserve. Join us and the community of Stockbridge in giving the preserve a spruce up! Volunteers will be split into groups at various locations throughout the preserve that are in need of some tidying. We will focus […]
Join us on Friday, August 4th from 2-4pm for an afternoon BioBlitz of the prairie at Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Preserve! A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. It is similar to a biological inventory conducted by scientists, but open […]
Interested in getting baaaaaaack to nature with some furry farm friends? Want to explore the intersection of animal husbandry and land stewardship? Volunteer with Legacy Land Conservancy to help maintain a mobile sheep herd that will be eating woody invasive plants on the Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Preserve! For one week from Sunday, September 10 […]