Monthly Archives: June 2009

Landscape and Vegetation of Oshtemo Township at the time of Settlement

By rbrewer | Published: June 28, 2009

This is a short version of a talk I gave at the Oshtemo Historical Society, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, this spring (March 2009) on the original vegetation of the township. I’m using 1830 as the beginning date. There are good reasons for choosing that year. One of Kalamazoo County’s famous early settlers, Benjamin Drake, arrived with [...]

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Conservation values of natural land vs farmland

By rbrewer | Published: June 21, 2009

Not long ago, a message asking about baseline documentation for conservation easements was posted on the landtrust-L website at Indiana University. The post, which boiled down to a question of how to assure that the baseline document will be admissible in court, drew about three dozen quick responses, several of which were pertinent and authoritative. [...]

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New Posts Coming

By rbrewer | Published: June 9, 2009

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By admin | Published: June 3, 2009

Richard Brewer is a biological scientist and author. His most recent book is Conservancy:  The Land Trust Movement in America, published in October 2003 by the University Press of New England under the Dartmouth College imprint. A recent article is Conservation Easements and Perpetuity: Till Legislation Do Us Part.  It is in the fall issue [...]

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