Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy

WHAT Please join the ‘Privateers’ weekly stewardship volunteers at Wolf Tree Nature Trails where we will radically shift gears from last week. The first target here is Spotted Knapweed, a very persistent and wiley perennial. It has a serious tap root: we may need to use weeding tools to get it up if there is […]

Please join us at Chipman Preserve for a story, craft, and guided hike with Richland Community Library. Children and their parents are invited to join us at Chipman Preserve where we will have storytime and create nature journals together. We will then take the nature journals on a hike and record all the wonderful things […]

Let’s meet some of the nearly 60 butterfly species that have been recorded at Chipman Preserve! Led by SWMLC naturalist Alice Dykstra, you can expect to learn the basics of identification and ecology – and see many beautiful butterflies. You will leave with an even deeper appreciation for these lovely – and essential – little […]