Author: Land Conservancy

2025 Holiday Hike Challenge Answer Key

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2025 Holiday Hike Challenge! The winners of our prizes have been contacted. Thanks again to all the wonderful businesses who donated prizes for this year's challenge. Below are the answers to the tree identification portion of the challenge.

Meet our new board members

July marked the beginning of a new fiscal year for the Land Conservancy of West Michigan, which means we said farewell to some board members and welcomed new ones to the team. Jon Prins and Amy Kenny finished their board terms this year. We are incredibly

Celebrating success in the prairie fen

In northeast Grand Rapids, Lamberton Lake serves as the headwaters of Lamberton Creek. A tributary of the creek flows out of Lamberton Lake into the Grand River. Where the creek meets the lake is a prairie fen. Prairie fens are groundwater-fed wetlands with alkaline soils

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