Monthly Archives: April 2010

A Cleaner, Greener Land: What Kalamazoo Ought to Do. 2010, Part 1.

By rbrewer | Published: April 22, 2010

I made the following remarks at the 24 April 2004 Earth Day celebration at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and included them on the earlier version of my website as Conservation Letter 2 . Today, in boldface , I look at the same topics six years later. When I agreed to give a talk at Earth [...]

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Land Trusts and The Land Trust Movement

By rbrewer | Published: April 17, 2010

This is an updated version of a page from the first version of my website.  It will be moved to the Pages section in a few days. For classification purposes, we can separate land conservation by government and land conservation by private organizations. Two models of private land conservation exist–land trusts and land advocacy organizations. [...]

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Field Trip to Big Island Woods (Cooper’s Island) Coming Up

By rbrewer | Published: April 6, 2010

Saturday 24 April I’m leading a field trip to the Big Island Woods, also referred to as Cooper’s Island.  It’s a trip for the Kalamazoo Wild Ones chapter. “Big Island Woods” refers to an “island” of forest in the middle of Prairie Ronde, southwest Michigan’s largest mesic (tall-grass) prairie. The village of Schoolcraft was founded [...]

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