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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.
Join Naturalist and Legacy Trustee Neal Billetdeaux for an informative guided hike of Reichert Nature Preserve. Due to the sensitive nature of some of the habitats in this 92-acre preserve north of Portage Lake, written permission is required to visit the preserve on your own, but registration for this event is all you’ll need for access […]
Stroll with Amanda Klain, a native plant advocate and plant connoisseur, through a Legacy's Sharon Hills Preserve to discover plants used as medicine historically and today. Learn to properly identify some of these "herbal allies," hear a history of their use as medicine, and gain insight into why today's trained herbalists prize certain species. Expect […]
Henslow's sparrow. Photo by Chuck Mekbel. Gary Siegrist, a Legacy volunteer and naturalist, will help you identify the grassland birds of Watkins Lake during their nesting season. Grassland birds observed at Watkins Lake include: Henslow’s Sparrow (endangered in MI), Grasshopper Sparrow and Dickcissel (species of special concern, meaning they are rare or declining in number), […]
Join us for a Fall Color Hike at Sharon Hills! On October 5th from 12:30-2:30pm, Legacy Land Conservancy will be leading a fall color hike at Sharon Hills Preserve. Feel free to come for the workday from 10am-12pm and stay for the hike, or to just arrive at 12:30 to join us for the hike […]