Preserving Door County's Finest Open Spaces and Wild
Places
The Door County Land Trust is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
permanently protect lands that contribute significantly to the scenic beauty,
open space and ecological integrity of Door County. We have protected
nearly 5,000 acres since 1986. With your help, we have the opportunity to
protect thousands of additional acres of the most critical and inspiring natural
landscapes in Door County.
If
you have any questions or would like more information about how you can help
protect Door County’s Finest Open Spaces and Wild Places, we invite you
to e-mail us at
info@doorcountylandtrust.org or call our office in Sturgeon Bay at (920)
746-1359.
Recent Projects: Two
Land
Purchases Protect over 500 Acres!
The Kreuter Property― 91 acres in the Town of Clay Banks
Located
along Lake Michigan approximately 6 miles south of Sturgeon Bay,
the 91-acre Kreuter Preserve offers what is arguably one of the most breathtaking views in
all of Door County. From the top of a windswept bluff, a bucolic, green farm
field stretches to the edge of a high clay bank. This high bluff or bank then
cascades down to a sand beach where it meets the sparkling blue waters of Lake
Michigan. Looking out on the horizon from this hill-top field, one sees the
Door Peninsula appear and disappear as its wooded shoreline stretches
northeastward out into the open lake.
Read more...The Harold C. Wilson Three Springs Preserve―
421 acres near Sister Bay
“The purchase of the Three Springs property marks the biggest conservation
purchase ever by the Door County Land Trust and, more importantly, protects what
had been the largest, unprotected parcel remaining in northern Door County,”
said Dan Burke, Executive Director of the Door County Land Trust.
Although this beautiful, undeveloped tract, lies just 2 miles east of Sister
Bay, it is almost a
secret place, out of sight of a major road and unknown to most of the public.
Read more...
Dining for Open Spaces 2009
Series Announced
See Schedule for
Dining for Open Spaces Series
We
hope you’ll gather around one of the
Door County Land Trust’s Dining for Open Spaces tables this year. The Dining for Open Spaces
is an annual series of events hosted by Land Trust members to benefit
the Door County Land Trust. They
welcome other fellow land preservation enthusiasts into their homes for brunches, lunches, cocktail
parties and dinners. Each Dining event includes a visit to one of
Door County’s beautiful open spaces.
Find out more...
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"Explore the Door” Outing Series
Hikes and Other Outdoor Adventures
Door
County Land Trust members have long enjoyed hiking, paddling and
skiing on Land Trust properties as part of the popular “E-Club.”
We’re pleased to announce that the “E-Club” has a new name and will
offer a greater number of events!
The new “Explore the Door”
series offers increased venues and dates to allow more of you to
visit the beautiful places you’ve helped the Land Trust protect.
Outings will be led by trained Door County Land Trust
volunteer hike leaders and/or Land Trust staff. All “Explore the
Door” outings are free of charge for Land Trust members, but
pre-registration is required. The Summer, Fall and Winter
schedule is available now.
Find out more...
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Land
Trust Website Redesign
Does our website look a bit different? We have
recently made a few changes to make it easy and enjoyable for our members, local
landowners and the community to find the information they need
about the Door County Land Trust, the lands we protect,
our fun-filled events, and ways to support our work.
Some of the new features we hope you will explore include:
- What's New
(you are reading it now!) and Recent
Projects, which will recap our recent land preservation
successes
- Table of Contents,
which links to all the pages in our website
- Publications, maps,
and forms you can download and print right from our website
(notice that the file size is disclosed in parentheses so
our friends on "dial-up" can determine whether they want to
attempt to download large files before they click)
- Volunteer
and Hunter Information
web-based forms to quickly and easily submit information to
our staff via the internet
And plans are underway to add features such as accepting credit
cards online, a photo gallery of our beautiful protected lands,
an interactive map of our 25 Special Places, and much more...
So please bookmark this page and visit often!
We welcome your feedback! Please
send an e-mail to
info@doorcountylandtrust.org to let us know if something
about our website is confusing or is not working properly, or if
you have a suggestion for additional features you would like to
see in the future.
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Download Our Latest Newsletter
Landings-
Spring 2009 (1.3 mb) |
Take
a Hike! Download Trail Maps for Popular Land Trust
Preserves
One of the most exciting things about supporting the Door
County Land Trust is getting to know the special places you
helped protect! You can now view directions and print your
own
Trail Maps & Preserve Directions for five of the most popular
Land Trust Preserves. Let your adventures begin! |
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