Our new “Top 10 Ways to Preserve Land and Water in Your Community” gives planners and officials in your community an easy guide to preserve clean water, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland by making the following mandatory for new developments in your community: 1. Inexpensive Preliminary Sketch Plan Include a sketch plan of greenway land, [...]
Tryon Farm, my favorite conservation community and one of LandChoices’ good friends and supporters, recently sponsored an educational day for the kids of Lydia Home Association in Chicago. I learned about this wonderful event on the Tryon Farm Facebook page. The games and events were successfully led by educators from the Indiana Soil and Water [...]
The TMZ Farm in southeast Michigan is a terrific buffalo farm that offers an effective way to use land and support buffalo conservation. I first read about them in the wonderful article “Where buffalo roam” in the Detroit Free Press. It’s a great video, I hope you enjoy it. //
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LandChoices is working to come up with an alternate name for “conservation subdivisions” and you can help. Why a New Name? While we will continue to use the term “conservation subdivisions”, it will be helpful to have an alternate name more conducive for use in informal conversation and a 30 second elevator pitch/speech. In one-on-one [...]
URGENT! Protect the Saugatuck Dunes! Support Local Zoning Laws! YOU Can Make A Difference By Signing This Petition NOW! On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 the Saugatuck Township Board of Supervisors and Planning Commissioners will consider a new zoning ordinance proposed by the Singapore Dunes LLC, owners of the former Denison property. The ordinance, known as a Zoning [...]
“The Present That Lasts Forever” premiers Friday, October 9 at 9 p.m on WCMU TV. Discover Michigan land which will remain unchanged forever. Explore the motivations behind why people work with local Land Conservancies and Land Trusts. (Part I of II) “Looking Down the Road” premiers Friday, October 9 at 9:30 p.m. This original WCMU [...]
The Land Trust Alliance has a nice article about 15 ranches protected by the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT) and several partner organizations. Over the past decade, 15 ranchland conservation easements have protected more than 11,000 acres. “This ranch means a great deal to our family and we are committed to raising our kids [...]
Yesterday I received the following note from the owner of a North Carolina farm protected with a conservation easement: “Can the state’s power of eminent domain be used to build a highway across conserved land? We are worried about the possibility of a 4-land highway through our conserved land.” Hers is a great question. I answered “From what [...]
“Preserving forests in an urban world” is a good article to help planners preserve forests in urban and suburban areas. Conservation subdivisions are mentioned as a tool to protect forests and habitat: Conservation subdivisions aim to keep 50-70 percent of a development as open space. These special subdivisions can reduce infrastructure costs for developers and [...]
