News and Events

Fall is upon us...

And we’re having a great time working on new projects, walking the moraines, floodplains, forests, hills, and savannahs of our beautiful region! We encourage you to get out and enjoy the last colorful blasts from our forests at one of our preserves, or a local park! Don’t forget about our stewardship days – perfect ways to spend a couple of hours outside doing good work!

Conservancy Stewardship Days
All workdays require pre-registration! Call or email Heather Huffstutler
(248) 601-2816
hhuffstutler@sixrivesrrlc.org

Drayton Plains Nature Center, Waterford Township
Saturday, November 15th 9am
Have a great Saturday morning on the river and in the woods! Join us for invasive plant removal and hot chocolate! Please call Heather to register for this workday!

Golden Preserve, Springfield Township
Saturday, November 8th 10am
Join Heather for woody invasive control. We will also walk the property to ensure boundary markings are up to date. Call Heather to register for this workday!

Valley Woods Nature Preserve, Southfield
Heather will be working here throughout November. Please call her to join her at this wonderful park along the Rouge River.

STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM UPDATES
Easement Monitor Volunteers are needed for properties in Lyon Township, Oakland Township, Orion Township, and Waterford Township. Please call Heather to discuss this opportunity! You can join her on monitoring visits this fall to see what’s expected and how to do this vital job for the Conservancy.

Southeast Michigan Lakeplain Prairie Cluster
Join a diverse group of partners in the Southeast and Lakeplain area in this visioning session for a new cluster at the U of M –Dearborn Environmental Discovery Center.
Wednesday, October 29th
6:30-9pm
Learn more and register by visiting:
http://www.stewardshipnetwork.org/site

Call for workday/workshop ideas!
The Headwaters Cluster Planning Committee will be developing our 2009 Workshop Calendar in November, and we want to hear from you! If you are interested in a certain aspect of stewardship, want to know more about something, or have a burning question that doesn’t seem to be answered by other events, please let us know! We can work with you and other experts to develop a workshop on what YOU want to know. Call Heather to discuss your ideas (248) 601-2816.

Royal Oak Nature Society
“Our Hidden Wildlife, Fishes”, presented by Bob Muller,
Nature Society Naturalist
November 5 at 7:30pm
Royal Oak Middle School
www.ci.royal-oak.mi.us/nature/index.html
North America has the greatest diversity of fishes in the temperate regions of the world. Some of our local fishes in Michigan are among the most colorful freshwater fish on earth, but you probably never even new they existed. Join Bob as he describes this diversity and leads you though a description of the many families of American fishes.

Green Living Expo
A part of The Fifth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil
and Community Solutions
Saturday, November 1st
12 -6 pm
Oakland Center at Oakland University
This FREE Expo will include:
Connections Café open roundtable discussions with regional and world sustainability experts; a screening of the award-winning film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil with Film Producer, Faith Morgan; a slideshow presentation: U.S. Sustainability Tour, with Shane Snell.
More information available at www.plancconference.org

Shop and Champagne Holiday Shop 2008
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham
Wednesday, December 3 6:30-8:00 pm
Shop opens to public on Friday, December 5
(248) 644-0866 for more information
http://shopandchampagne.bbartcenter.org/

Bird Man Returns to Kinsgsbury!
Raptor Biologist Joe Rogers will bring his birds of prey to the Kingsbury Country Day School for an entertaining and informative afternoon.
Kingsbury County Day School
500 Hosner Road, Oxford, MI
November 2 at 2pm
www.kingsburyschool.org

America Recycles Day
November 15, 2008
http://www.nrc-recycle.org/americarecycles.aspx

MSU Extension and Food System Economic Partnership
Calder Dairy Farm Open House
Saturday, November 8th
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Calder Farm is located at 9334 Finzel Road, in Carleton, Michigan.
Free and open to the public
For more information contact Calder Dairy at 734-654-2622.

Please contact Executive Director Donna Folland at (248) 601-2816 with any questions about the Conservancy or the information in this email newsletter. We thank you for your interest in our programs, and for your ongoing support of our organization & its mission...to conserve, sustain and connect natural areas, lands and waters that make the places we live special.

Donna Folland
Executive Director
Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy
PO Box 80902
Rochester, Michigan 48308-0902
Telephone: (248) 601-2816
Fax: (248) 601-4582
www.sixriversrlc.org