Vol. 16 No. 1
In this issue...
Reflections from the President
GINLC Education Committee Report
Land Acquisition
2007 GI Conservationist of the Year Award
Doug Thiel Honored for Service
Conservancy Awarded Pond Restoration Grant
Upcoming Events...
May 3
Nature Area Opening Day
10AM to 2PM
April 19
Island Clean Up
Call Jake Atkins
(734) 676-5536
for meeting site
April 19 & 26
Nature Area Clean Up
9:00AM to Noon
Nature Area
April 20
Earth Day
Centinnial Farm
1PM to 4PM
May 10
Arbor Day
Tree Planting Seminar
10AM to 11AM
Centennial Farm
Register - 675-2364
(Rec. Department)
No Fee
May 14
BASF Presentation
Riverview Project
Township Hall
8PM
Land Acquisition
by Ingo Hasserodt
Our Conservancy is making steady progress protecting vacant land on the Thoroughfare Canal.
Last year due to the kind donation of Mr. & Mrs. Wittbold, three wooded lots on the north bank of the Thoroughfare Canal were added to our land inventory.
Two adjacent lots, now owned by the State of Michigan, are about to be deeded to us by The Michigan Land Bank thanks to the assistance of Supervisor Kobiljak. This, including the two lots donated by Mr. & Mrs. Morse in previous years will provide the Conservancy with about four hundred feet of wooded water frontage of high environmental value.
In addition, the Conservancy already protects six lots on the south shore of the Canal on Halley Crescent with the Township owning most of the vacant wooded lots all the way up to the Meridian Bridge.
There are several more wooded vacant lots on the Canal that are unlikely to ever be developed due to the lack of sewers in the area and are therefore of little value to their present owners.
Our long-range vision is to protect all the remaining wooded lots on the Canal between the Meridian Bridge and the Trenton Channel, protecting a valuable riparian habitat and providing the people of Grosse Ile with a scenery reminiscent of a time prior to development.