Grants: Land Use

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Urban and Community Forestry/Saginaw Bay Watershed Region

June 2005

This project, developed by Global ReLeaf of Michigan, propsed to support and grow a network of communities in the Saginaw Bay Region that are focused on maintaining and establishing urban tree programs. This grant supported quarterly meetings for watershed communites, provision of technical assstance to communites, the utilization for native and local provenance trees for street tree replacement and park plantings, and the engagement of volunteers in tree inventories, tree boards, and tree plantings.

Chippewa Trail

June 2005

Proposed by the Chippewa Nature Center, this project provided support for the Chippewa Trail which was constructed adjacent to the Chippewa Nature Center and City of Midland property and connects Downtown Midland with the Pere Marquette Rail-Trail. This project was built on recommendations published in Saginaw Bay Greenways Collaborative’s Vision of Green report. This trail includes interpretive stations that discuss economic, environmental, and community issues related to the area that the trail traverses.

Urban and Community Forestry / Saginaw Bay Watershed Region

June 2005

This project, developed by Global ReLeaf of Michigan, supports a growing a network of communities in the Saginaw Bay region that are focused on maintaining and establishing urban tree programs. This grant supports quarterly meetings for watershed communities, provision of technical assistance to communities, the utilization of native and local provenance trees for street tree replacement and park plantings, and the engagement of volunteers in tree inventories, tree boards, and tree plantings.

Chippewa Trail

June 2005

Proposed by the Chippewa Nature Center, this project supported the construction of the Chippewa Trail. This trail, constructed adjacent to Chippewa Nature Center and City of Midland property, connects Downtown Midland with the Pere Marquette Rail-Trail. This project built on recommendations published in Saginaw Bay Greenways Collaborative’s Vision of Green report. This trail includes interpretive stations that discuss economic, environmental, and community issues related to the area that the trail traverses.

Tittabawassee River Watershed Priority Conservation Land Assessment

October 2004

The Little Forks Conservancy developed a green infrastructure based strategy for the identification of priority conservation lands within the Tittabawassee River Watershed. A steering committee made up of members of land conservancies working in this region provided project direction and input based on the working priorities and strategies employed by their respective organizations, while facilitation and strategic visioning was guided by members of the National Park Service RTCA program. The development and need for a green infrastructure based strategy was driven by the diverse needs of these conservancies and the need for a cooperative, systemic approach to resource protection in the Tittabawassee basin. Utilizing the principles of green infrastructure, a strategy was developed that allowed regional conservation organizations to evaluate potential protection projects against an overall planned preservation framework while taking into account relative risk of development. Such a strategy can be used on a broad scale to target the most logical properties to protect, and on a much smaller scale for a detailed site analysis of individual ecoblocks. Geographic Information Systems and other planning information systems, utilized in conjunction with the goals and operating strategies of the collaborating organizations, were the predominant tools used in creation of this strategy.

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