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Youth Stewardship work focuses on habitat restoration, trail maintenance, removal of invasive species, help in the Children’s Garden, weeding at the Blandford Farm, and more! Education is always a major focus of the day as youth learn to identify and manage plants and how they directly impact their surrounding environment. Youth also learn the importance […]
Invasive species training session to take place May 25th from 10am to 12pm at the Washtenaw County Road Commission Building! Perfect for residents, county/municipal staff, interns. landscaping professionals, and educators! Snacks and refreshments provided! Please send an email to shikha.singh@macd.org or call 517-395-2089 JLW CISMA website listing: https://jlwcisma.weebly.com/upcoming-events.html Attendees can earn 2 RUP credits in […]
On Thursdays from April 27th through June, learn to identify common spring ephemeral wildflowers and get trained as a Wildflower Ranger on how to protect wildflowers in your favorite natural area. Through this hands-on service-learning activity removing invasive garlic mustard, you'll get off-trail outdoor exercise and develop a sense of well-being in nature, all while […]
https://www.manisteecd2.org/native-plant-event Save the Date for our 3rd annual Native Plant Event in partnership with Black Cap Farm. Stop by on Friday, June 2 from 11am-3pm to shop all your favorite native plants. Many varieties of native plants available for purchase. Native plant experts onsite to answer questions. A chance to win raffle prizes! Professionals from […]
Pre-register through VolunteerHub https://nap.a2gov.org/Bluffs060323 This place is nuts! Eleven species of nut-producing trees can be found here, including three of the four Michigan hickory species (bitternut, pignut, and shagbark), both walnuts (black and butternut), five oaks (white, swamp, Hill's, red, and black), and hazelnut. Hog-peanut—not a nut, but a vining legume—is also found here! Much […]
Come to our popular native plant sale on June 3 in the parking lot of Neiman's Market, 7121 Dixie Hwy, Clarkston. We carry the best flowers, grasses, trees and bushes from Wildtype Nursery. Feel free to bring your own containers to transport your plants. Proceeds support the Blue Heron Headwaters Conservancy efforts to save land […]
A tour of the facilities and the landscape features at the Lenawee ISD Center for a Sustainable Future will be highlighted, including a walk through the 35 acre wood lot. The school is used as a land lab where students get hands-on experience with land management. The Center for a Sustainable Future is a net-zero […]
Pre-register through VolunteerHub https://nap.a2gov.org/Ruthven061023 Ruthven is a reminder of many things: the kame, a hill composed of material left by retreating glaciers, is a reminder that it once stood beneath a mile of ice; the gorgeous oak opening habitat is a reminder of the once-dominant oak savannas whose grassland dotted the landscape in and around […]
Pre-register through VolunteerHub https://nap.a2gov.org/Fuller061023 Nestled between soccer fields, Island Park, and Cedar Bend Nature Area, Fuller Park contains a five-acre floodplain forest. These low bottomlands occasionally flood with the rise of the Huron, and the many water-loving plants here help mitigate flooding downstream. Much restoration work has been done recently to help this natural ecosystem […]
Pre-register through VolunteerHub https://nap.a2gov.org/BirdHills061123 Bird Hills is one of Ann Arbor’s most popular natural areas – and with five trailheads, there are a lot of options for viewing this beloved park. Stewardship of Ann Arbor’s natural areas is part of NAP’s mission, and a large park like Bird Hills needs lots of care to keep […]
Pre-register through VolunteerHub https://nap.a2gov.org/Brokaw060423 Unique to Ann Arbor, this triangle-shaped 24-acre nature area is one of the newest parks—and one of only two to host shingle oaks. This is the only native oak with “entire” leaves, meaning they are not lobed like all other Michigan oaks. Additional oak species found here include white, swamp, Hill's, […]
The Phragmites Adaptive Management Framework: Using participatory science to manage the invasive common reed effectively w/ guest Taaja R. Tucker-Silva (Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey - Great Lakes Science Center) Non-native Phragmites australis, the invasive common reed, has disrupted wetland ecosystems across North America. Although Phragmites established itself in the Great Lakes basin decades ago, there […]
Join us for Wild Friday volunteer field sessions at Columbus County Park! This large, rustic and rolling park features the Belle River running through it. The river, varied topography and big trees provide excellent plant and wildlife habitat and biodiversity. Join our park naturalist-invasive species specialist to learn about, restore and care for the park’s […]
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