Linda Walterreit has long recognized the need for conservation. In 2016, she signed a Conservation Easement with the Chippewa Watershed Conservancy to permanently protect nearly sixty-four acres of farmland and natural space in Isabella County’s Fremont Township.
Linda always dreamed of owning a woods but never thought it would be possible. She lived next to a woods but it was not hers. She despaired of the thought that someday that woods may be cleared. When it came up for sale late last year, Linda jumped at the chance to place a bid on the property. When the bidding closed, Linda was at last the proud owner of a woods of her own.
On Friday, May 26th Linda signed an amendment to her Conservation Easement that added approximately thirty additional acres of farmland and thirty acres of woods to the lands that she has permanently protected.
Linda’s new woods is filled with a variety of mature deciduous trees including red oak, sugar maple, black cherry, American beech, paper birch, and red maple. The trees grow over a diverse shrub layer and carpet of herbaceous plants including mayapple, violets, ferns, trout lily, blue cohosh, wild strawberry, and numerous sedges and grasses. Linda was especially excited to find her first trillium bloom on the property this spring.
The addition of Linda’s 59.61 acres brings the total acreage of conservation easements held by the CWC in Isabella County to 609 acres.
[…] included the addition of two new nature preserves (Starks Preserve and Weting Preserve), the addition of 60 acres to Linda Walterreit’s conservation easement, volunteer successes at removing invasive species, and construction of a new trail at Sylvan Solace […]