Glacial Lakes Conservancy, Inc.

Glacial Lakes Conservancy

Since 1996, Glacial Lakes Conservancy has worked with interested public partners and private landowners with permanent easements or preserves to protect the land and their legacy, creating an overall public benefit that will impact generations to come.

Lake Michigan Basin

As wildlife habitat, the Lake Michigan Basin supports a unique and impressive array of biological diversity, including many species that occur nowhere else in the world.

Lake Michigan Flyway

The Lake Michigan Flyway is utilized by over 300 species of birds as a major international thoroughfare.

Glacial Lakes Conservancy Stewardship

Completed projects bring long-term responsibilities as well. As the land trust works on new private and public land conservation projects, there is the stewardship role that GLC plays to ensure that the land stays protected.

On October 30th, Glacial Lakes Conservancy provided a Lunch & Guided Land Walk Celebration to showcase GLC’s land protection work. The event was held at historic Fischer Farm with hosts Mark & Noelle Jonas. GLC volunteer naturalists, Shirley Griffin and Sarah Majerus, led tours of the property for those of the fifty-five attendees that wanted to venture out after lunch and hot cider in the drizzle. Board members, Kenn Buelow and Chris Krieg led the event and thanked our wonderful donors, Preservation Partner members, the Sheboygan County Stewardship Grant, and our amazing campaign volunteers that made Glacial Lakes Conservancy’s Grasshopper Hill Preserve a reality. Link to our Grasshopper Hill Project page and view the Grasshopper Hill photo gallery slideshow.

Misty Valley Farm

We are still celebrating the Mary & Paul Lydolph Misty Valley Farm Conservation Easement that preserves this 235.5-acre property. The Misty Valley Farm easement includes farmland fields and a homestead farm, as well as habitat protection for the property’s regionally rare bog complex, woodlands, remnant prairie, wetlands, steep-sided valley, and successional open space.

Working with a Land Trust

Hear how land trusts are working in the Lake Michigan Basin of the Great Lakes Region. Executive Directors Dan Burke of Door County Land Trust, Shawn Graff of Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, and Vickie Hall of Glacial Lakes Conservancy are featured in this video from the Lake Michigan Shorelands Alliance, produced by gwc admin.