Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy

Newsletter

Check out our latest newsletter online in pdf format!
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Helping people protect the local wild and scenic places they care most about.

Hidden Marsh

Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy invites you to help protect the local wild and scenic places you care most about: dunes, wetlands, forests, savannas, prairies, farms and vineyards. It's this diverse beauty that makes the landscape of southwest Michigan such a special place to call home. Working together, we can ensure that future generations will continue to enjoy the extraordinary quality of life our natural lands provide.

Are you as sick of garlic mustard as we are?? Want to do something about it? Join SWMLC and the Stewardship Network for the 2008 Garlic Mustard Challenge! Click here for more details.

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SWMLC is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual Photo Contest. Get out your camera and go enjoy the beautiful landscapes of southwest Michigan -- you could be this year's winner! (click here for more info)

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J.A. Woollam Foundation $10,000 Challenge
for 2008

Based on our great success in 2007, Dr. John A. Woollam has generously offered an even greater challenge to SWMLC this year. Your donation dollars can go twice as far in 2008!

Dr. Woollam is challenging each of us to increase our gifts and to recruit new donors. Here are some ways you can meet the challenge:

Become a member and ask a friend to become a member.
Renew your membership if it is lapsed.
Increase last year's membership donation. The increase will be matched.
Make a Leadership Donation of $500 or more.

We are confident that you can help us meet this new challenge. Donations must be received before December 31, 2008.

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Thinking of become a Wednesday Workday Warrior this year? Or do you just like to read Kristi Chapman's musings? Click here for Kristi's Wednesday Workday Journal.......

Read about SWMLC's efforts to protect the Prairieville Creek Watershed. Click here.

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Legislation has been proposed in Michigan to create a state income tax credit for voluntary donations of land or conservation easements. Please write to your Senators and Representatives urging them to support these bills. Click here for sample letters and for addresses.

There is more detailed information on the proposed legislation from the Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy. Click here.

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Kim and Lula Palmer have always loved their land. Originally from Georgia, the Palmers never thought they’d stay in Michigan after they retired. "We didn’t expect to be here this long," said Lula Palmer. "But we’ve grown to love it, and we can’t make ourselves leave this property.".........

(click here to read more)

Need a trail map to one of our public preserves? Go to our preserve profiles and then to the individual preserve -- most of them now have a trail map!

Drink from the Ashes of the Enemy

Click here to purchase a beautiful mug made by Stan Rajnak or Katy Takahashi!

Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
6851 S. Sprinkle Road
Portage, MI 49002
Phone: (269) 324-1600
Fax: (269) 324-9760
General Information: ConserveLand@swmlc.org
Webmaster: jlewandowski@swmlc.org

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