2009 Stewardship Annual Report

A new report is hot off the press! Our stewardship team totaled up the busy year they had in 2009. Achievements included: increased prescribed burning around the state to increase sustainable forestry and prevent wildfires, teaching this technique to Guatemalan workers to help protect their forests and assisting research projects at our preserves. Read about our work to take care of places we protect.

How Many Islands Are In the Great Lakes?

Scientists at The Nature Conservancy recently partnered with colleagues in the U.S. and Canada to publish “Islands of Life” – a comprehensive report on the world’s largest collection of freshwater islands found here in the Great Lakes. Read about the report and click to find the Google Earth link.

Take A Dive Deep Into Coastal Conservation

The next time you walk along a beach in Michigan, look ahead, behind and to each side of you. All of the action we take on land and in the water affects the health of our coastal areas – the biological engines of the Great Lakes. Read a Q&A with our director of coastal conservation, Rachael Franks Taylor, and learn what The Nature Conservancy is doing to protect this special system.

What’s New

Wavelengths

Michigan’s 3,288 miles of coastline offers more shores than anywhere else in the contiguous United States. Learn what The Nature Conservancy is doing to protect our coastal systems beyond the water’s edge. Read our latest newsletter [950KB PDF].

Giving to the Great Lakes

A new special report [2MB PDF] by The Nature Conservancy shares some of the stories about the people and partner organizations supporting our conservation work in Michigan and the Great Lakes. 


 

The Science Behind Conservation

Behind every great project or action on-the-ground is the science to research, plan, determine, and measure our conservation success. Learn about our what our scientists and stewards are doing behind laptops and loppers.

 

Michigan: Our Land, Our Water, Our Heritage

Our book published by the University of Michigan Press explores our conservation work across the state and features some of Michigan’s most notable writers and photographers highlighting places protected by The Nature Conservancy. Part of the proceeds benefit conservation.

How We Protect Watersheds

Explore a cool interactive feature to see how the Conservancy protects freshwater resources worldwide.

Cool Green Science

New! The conservation blog of The Nature Conservancy.

Ways of Giving

A membership with the Conservancy makes a delightful gift. Share your love of nature with friends and family while protecting Michigan.

Places We Protect

From the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula to Erie Marsh near the Ohio border, we open our preserve doors to 18 natural areas in the Great Lakes state.

The Nature Conservancy has purchased and transferred more than 52,000 acres to public lands in Michigan. Places like Camp Swampy provide habitat for species like the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly.

Look Who’s Helping

Our conservation work is supported by numerous Michigan-based foundations, corporations and private individuals. Read how one company headquartered in Michigan is helping global conservation.