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From Tree Planting to Lasting Partnership
By Kyler Moran, Preserve Stewardship Manager Since 2023, Legacy has partnered with Stockbridge Community Schools’ Future Farmers of America (FFA) program at Beckwith Preserve. Located next to the school and connected by trail, the preserve gives students direct access…
Meet Our Seasonal Staff
Every spring, Legacy’s preserves awaken with bustling activity. Vegetation blooms, wildlife emerge, and visitors wander. And for our team, new priorities arise, restoration projects ramp up, and events and volunteer workdays fill the calendar. And none of it happens…
Legacy Land Conservancy Earns National Accreditation Recognition for Protecting Land Long-Term
For residents across southern Michigan, the trails they walk, the farms that grow food, and the natural areas that protect clean water just received an added layer of protection. Legacy Land Conservancy has once again earned national accreditation–and independent…
Celebrate 55 Years of Protecting the Land You Love
Every good story has humble beginnings–small creeks that gather momentum as they trickle toward swifter waters. In 1971, along the banks of the Huron River, a small but mighty group banded together to push back against the rising tide of development in Ann Arbor….
Choose Your Own Adventure: Turning Passion into Conservation Action
In January, an Ann Arbor area-high school student had a simple idea: build an owl nest box and install it on a local nature preserve. A few months later, that idea took flight at a Legacy Land Conservancy preserve, thanks to our volunteer program designed to turn…
Legacy Land Conservancy Annual Report 2024-2025
As the year began, Legacy was moving forward with momentum and board and staff were excited about the prospects of a new year. Iron Creek Preserve restoration projects and opening day preparations were well underway. We celebrated the protection of a 198-acre farm…
A New Digital Chapter in Legacy’s 55-Year Story
By Pam Bierzynski, Communications Manager – When I began working at Legacy in 2013, we were a staff of six–sometimes joined by an intern or two–sharing a little over 600 square feet inside the NEW Center. The team had just wrapped up two art exhibitions and was…
A Milestone Years in the Making
Co-authored by Allene Smith, Senior Land Protection Specialist and Pam Bierzynski, Communications Manager – After five years of careful effort, collaboration, and trust-building, Legacy Land Conservancy is celebrating a major land protection milestone. In December, we…
A New Season of Preserve Engagement
By Kyler Moran, Preserve Stewardship Manager – This season, spending time on Legacy’s preserves will look a little different, and we couldn’t be more excited. After careful planning, thoughtful collaboration, and intentionally growing our team, Legacy is reshaping…
The Work That Happens Before the Wildflowers Bloom
By Maddy Gackenbach, Preserve Stewardship Associate – One by one I carefully separate milkweed seeds from the silky white fluff that carries them through the wind. I delicately pull apart bee balm seed heads releasing dozens of tiny seeds from the dry plant material….