- 2011The Conservancy is currently seeking Volunteer Preserve Monitors and Trail Stewards for those preserves listed below. Please contact Cindy at 231.344.1011 or email cindy@landtrust.org
for more information or to apply.
Charlevoix County
Conn’s Cove – Beaver Island
Dressel – in East Jordan
Raven Ridge – 5 miles east of East Jordan
Cheboygan County
Hanel Preserve – in Wolverine
Michigan Wildlife Foundation – 2 miles north of Wolverine
Emmet County
Bryan Wildlife Preserve – 5 miles NE of Pellston
McCune – 7 miles east of Petoskey (TRAIL STEWARD only)
For all volunteer work days, please wear sturdy shoes and bring gloves and drinking water. For some of the work days, we welcome the use of extra tools when possible! For more information or to sign up, please call our office at 231.347.0991.
WORK DAYS
| Date & Time | Location | Event Description |
| Friday, April 22 (9 am to 2 pm) |
Martha Cameron Preserve | Celebrate Earth Day by helping us to restore an old home site at the Martha Cameron Preserve in Harbor Springs. We’ll be doing some final cleanup, raking out topsoil, and planting meadow seeds and tree and shrub seedlings. We also plan to create a Bicyclists’ Wayside at this preserve along the Little Traverse Wheelway. Plans are still in the works, but this may include spreading crushed limestone, installing benches and a bike rack, and doing some additional landscaping. There is no parking at the site, so please call to register and find out where to park your car. Or, better yet, ride your bike! |
| Friday, April 22 (10 am and 2 pm) |
Menonaqua Preserve & Fochtman Preserve | Explore the edges of the Menonaqua Preserve and the Fochtman Preserve as we pick up spring melt trash along their road borders. Meet at the Conservancy office, and we will provide a shuttle ride to the cleanup sites. We’ll do Menonaqua at 10:00 am and Fochtman at 2:00 pm. Bags will be provided. |
| Saturday, May 14 (10 am to 3 pm) |
Little Sand Bay Home Site Cleanup |
The old Gallagher House on the Little Sand Bay Preserve in Beaver Island is one of the oldest structures on Beaver Island, thought to date from the Mormon era in the 1850s. The Beaver Island Historical Society hopes to preserve or restore the house. In the meantime, we’ll be cleaning up the area around the home site by removing barbed wire, demolishing small outbuildings, and searching along the old fence lines and stone walls to find and remove hidden stashes of farm debris. Come out Saturday, May 14 from 10 am to 3 pm to help with this effort and learn more about BIHS’s historic preservation plans. It’s guaranteed to be an interesting day, and you can take home any treasures you find. |
| Thursday, May 26 (9 am to 2 pm) |
Meadowgate Meadow Restoration | In May, 2010 about 50 students and adults from Harbor Springs Middle School spent a morning pulling invasive garlic mustard from throughout the 11-acre Meadowgate Nature Preserve near Harbor Springs. Don’t let their efforts go to waste! Come on out and help us keep this weed under control. We’ll also be doing work on other phases of the meadow restoration project planned for this preserve, including removing undesirable shrubs and saplings and planting tree seedlings. This is a great opportunity for kids to try their hand at land stewardship and learn more about our plans for meadow restoration. |
| Saturday, June 4 (10 am to 3 pm) |
Pigeon River Preserves Trail Linking | National Trails Day, created in 1993 by the American Hiking Society, is celebrated around the country on the first Saturday in June each year. Spend National Trails Day helping us to link up two great trail systems: the beloved and familiar Andreae Preserve, and our brand new Banwell Preserve. When complete, the combined total trail system will be four miles. |
| Friday, July 22 & Saturday, July 23 - call for time |
Vermilion Point Knapweed Pull | For the fifth year in a row, we will be pulling spotted knapweed at Vermilion Point. This high priority project is a cooperative effort of Little Traverse Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, Lake Superior State University, and the Eastern UP Cooperative Weed Management Area, and will help keep Vermilion’s habitat in shape for Piping Plovers and Lake Huron Tansy. This is your opportunity to stay overnight at Vermilion in the old Life Saving Station barracks. Don’t miss out! |
| Thursday, July 28 (9 am to noon) |
Chaboiganing Preserve Invasive Removal | Since 2005, we’ve been working to remove autumn olive and other woody invasives from the hay fields and forest edges at the Chaboiganing Preserve. Great progress has been made, but there are always a few stragglers left behind. |
