Our LNRP Team has been hard at work these past few months, as this quarterly newsletter illustrates. Since our Spring newsletter in April, we’ve advanced several project and programming efforts; celebrated several grant awards and a successful “Giving Tuesday Now” appeal; provided support for partner-led online events; and actively connected and communicated with our stakeholders and supporters via weekly “Virtual Happy Hour” engagements…
Read MoreAre you inspired by the extraordinary conservation impact our LNRP Team and our Partner Groups and wanting to make an immediate difference? Well, you absolutely can, with a tax-deductible gift to our LNRP Autumn Appeal!
Read MoreThe Niagara Escarpment Resource Network (NERN) has been hard at work over the past 18 months to renew and re-invigorate its decades-long effort to build awareness and increase stewardship of this globally unique geologic resource. Formed in 1998, NERN joined LNRP’s efforts in 2010 to expand its ability to implement its mission and achieve its overall vision of a protected Niagara Escarpment corridor that provides economic, social, and environmental values for generations to come.
Read MoreLNRP has captured the effort by using drone video to showcase the work and create a tool for long-term management. The Forest Service and Climate Adaptation Fund grants are designed to mitigate the impacts of emerald ash borer and create climate resilient coastal habitats. Project sites include coastal wetlands and forests, cold-water trout streams, riverine habitats, bluff lands, and Lake Michigan shoreline. Each project site is a publicly held property with a group of engaged stakeholders including a local unit of government, funding agencies, and an LNRP partner group.
Read MoreIn the past six weeks, Restoration of our Trees Sheboygan (ROOTS) celebrated the kickoff of five private-public sector mitigation projects in four communities throughout Sheboygan County, resulting in the safe removal of hundreds of dead ash trees and their accelerated replacement in public parks and on public thoroughfares.
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