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Amidst the chaos of 2020 you may have noticed a change within the Legacy stewardship team: longtime volunteer coordinator and steward extraordinaire, Dana Wright, is no longer working with Legacy. While it may have come as a surprise to most, it was a planned, systematic, and orderly transition that quietly came to fruition over the […]
When Legacy accepted the generous donation of 51 acres of farmland, oak hickory forest, and buttonbush swamp from the Lloyd & Mabel Johnson Foundation in 2007, we established a management plan for the preserve to outline our vision and guide our actions. The agricultural fields were a new adventure; while we had conserved hundreds of […]
We consider each and every one of our preserves special. Each one has something unique, and the Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Preserve is no exception. When Legacy acquired the Johnson Preserve in 2007, it was our only public preserve with both natural and agricultural lands. In addition to regionally important natural communities including buttonbush swamp […]
This story first appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of The Understory, Legacy’s newsletter, which you can download as a PDF. By Sarah Turner, Legacy Volunteer and School of Natural Resources and Environment master’s candidate Of Legacy’s six public preserves, Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Preserve is the only one with both natural and agricultural lands. […]
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