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Working to Protect Highland's Land and Natural Resources

Highland has many lakes, parks, and other beautiful natural features that make it a unique place to live. The Highland Conservancy strives to protect land throughout Highland and protect its rural atmosphere. Sometimes our work involves cleaning up roadside litter. At other times, we work with local officials to try to help establish ordinances that will provide open spaces, roadside buffers or protect woodlands. The Highland Conservancy worked alongside others to create a greenway plan which is now the model for other communities throughout Michigan. We helped in the creation of Highland Oaks, one of our first successful land-protection projects. Currently we are striving to protect Downey Oaks nature park by establishing a plan to propogate native plants and remove invasives such as spotted knapweed or swallow wort that could rapidly overtake the park if left unchecked.

For details on our work in helping establish Highland Oaks Park in Highland, read the interview with HC member Ron Flannery.

About this Website

Thank you for visiting the Highland Conservancy Website. Please visit this website for upcoming events, news, blog items, our annual report and more! Contact us if you need more information and want to receive our bimonthly E-Newsletter. Our "Blog" provides you with a way to contribute your thoughts and comments. Click on the news or blog button for weekly (and sometimes daily) articles and local events. For past newsletters, click on the newsletter button and browse for a specific newsletter. We invite you to come to our monthly meeting at 205 W. Livingston Road, Highland (the second Tuesday of every month starting at 7pm) to find out how you can join us in protecting Highland's natural resources.