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The Land Conservancy of West Michigan is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that works to keep nature nearby and conserve ecologically critical land in West Michigan. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments creating natural areas, and helping private landowners protect their own land.

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☑️ Show up in all kinds of weather to perform dedicated acts of care?
☑️ Defend you from enemies who threaten to dim your light?
☑️ Make space for you to flourish in all your natural glory?

Your Valentine may be a Second Saturday volunteer. Or you may be a prairie fen. Nothing says "I love you" like spending Valentine's Day morning releasing a rare native habitat from the chokehold of invasive shrubs. Thank you to everyone joined us at Lamberton Lake Fen Nature Preserve today!

West Michigan's natural lands have the best Valentines. Thank you for all you do to keep nature nearby. 💘 Happy Valentine's Day!

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This Saturday, join us at Lamberton Lake Fen Nature Preserve in Grand Rapids to remove invasive buckthorn and continue a long legacy of care for the rare prairie fen habitat protected by the preserve.

We'll meet at the preserve this Saturday, February 14, at 9 a.m. Learn more and register to attend on our website: https://naturenearby.org/events/ssw-at-lamberton-021426/

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Fifty years ago, four volunteers met to lay out a plan to identify, protect, and care for West Michigan’s natural areas. Lewis Drain, Grace Eldering, John Will, and Herbert Ranta founded the organization called the Natural Areas Conservancy of West Michigan (NACOWMI), incorporated on October 19, 1976.

Our founders were lawyers, scientists, and professionals who believed in the importance of the preservation and enjoyment of natural land. They made a promise to West Michigan's wildest places, and we've been keeping it ever since.

While so much has changed around us, we've worked to protect the natural spaces that make West Michigan feel like home. What started as hope has become legacy, transforming thousands of acres into enduring sanctuaries where today's children will bring their own children to explore.

Fun fact: One of our founding board members, Grace Eldering, is better known for being one of two women to help create the vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, in the 1930s.

#lcwm50 #keepingnaturenearby

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