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Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy is accomplishing its mission to conserve land in southeast Michigan, but there is still a lot of work to do.
To illustrate our current efforts, SMLC’s Spring 2011 newsletter held a special colorful insert that showed the Land Conservancies of Southeast Michigan Collaborative’s map, “A Natural Network for Southeast Michigan.”
Click here to see the Collaborative’s “A Natural Network of Southeast Michigan” map (PDF)
The issue also showed an updated map of the Superior Greenway, a collaborative effort to protect the best remaining open natural and agricultural spaces between suburban Detroit and Ann Arbor.
Click here to see the current Superior Greenway map (PDF)
National retailer, REI, awarded SMLC a $5,000 grant for Superior Township stewardship work in Fall 2011 and Spring 2012.
 In spring of 2012, SMLC will host additional REI workdays to build a bridge over a stream and a boardwalk over a consistently wet area in the preserve. This will make hiking the trails more accessible all year long. If you are interested in seeing either of these projects happen, your help is needed!
To sign up for these 2012 REI projects, call 734.484.6565 or email Scott Tyrrell, SMLC Volunteer Coordinator at styrrell@smlcland.org.
Thanks to the hard work of over 45 volunteers this past September and October, two large old trash piles that pre-existed SMLC's ownership are now forever removed from the preserve! Photo by Scott Tyrrell
A big thank you to REI for funding these important SMLC projects.
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