Taking Leadership National
Rob Krain, executive director of the Black Swamp Conservancy, has been appointed to a four-year term on the National Conservation Defense Advisory Council of the Land Trust Alliance. His term began June 2021.
Chronolog: Building a Time Lapse View of Conservation
A new tool that uses technology most people have in their pocket allows private citizens to help document growth and other changes in areas where Conservancy stewards are eager to see conservation in action.
Urban Murals Share Stories of Local History and Conservation
Native plants thrive and pollinators flutter on two new two-story murals in urban Toledo. Both displays tell the story of how plants are part of the great water cycle, taking up water through filtered soil, creating flowers and seeds, and making a living landscape that supports life above ground and below.
A 7 Project Update
This spring and summer, we’re putting final touches on four landscape-scale restoration projects and beginning three new ones. In all of these projects, we have been able to return critical lands back to natural habitats and improve water quality.
Rare Coastal Wetland to be Preserved
Exploring the newest and largest Conservancy project, it’s easy to imagine Ohio’s first residents enjoying this pristine and beautiful region. A narrow, sandy beach on Lake Erie’s coastline extends as far as we can see.
A Place for People to Enjoy Nature
The Dr. Robert L. Nehls Memorial Nature Preserve on Catawba Island is well on its way to becoming a new, special resource for nature lovers. The 40-acre lakeshore property on West Harbor has been Conservancy property since 2019.
Winter Is Coming
Wildlife use a lot of strategies to survive winter, but they boil down to three basic options: go south, sleep it off, or just tough it out.
H2Ohio in Action
In 2019, Ohio set forth a bold vision to improve water quality in Lake Erie and throughout the State with the advent of the H2Ohio program. This new program is now resulting in on-the-ground work that will have long-reaching benefits.
Protecting Habitats Expands Wildlife Populations
If Misty Copeland and Michael Phelps had a bird baby, it would be a Sandhill Crane. With a wingspan of up to seven feet, Sandhill Cranes spend most of their lives pirouetting and leaping in freshwater wetlands.
Landscaping, Naturally
Quarantine stopped a lot of things this year, including our annual fundraiser, but it didn’t hold us back from completing the installation of new native gardens at our Homestead. The former landscaping, which contained mostly non-native ornamental species, was removed in late 2019. The new native landscaping features more than 250 native shrubs and plugs.
