Door County Land Trust
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Photos by Naseem Reza
Chambers Island Nature Preserve - Spring 2018 Report What’s Next?
Launching Our Completion Campaign to Raise $350,000 In Our Fifth Year –
Four Years Ago –
A Dream
The Completion Campaign
Our dream was to create a nature preserve on Chambers Island. To make the dream a reality, the Nature Preserve Committee of the Chambers Island Association formed a partnership with the Door County Land Trust (DCLT) and started raising money to acquire as much of the island’s forest and wetlands as possible. Our mission: Save – Sustain – Study.
We have set priorities and are raising funds to complete the nature preserve. Priorities include wetlands critical to Chambers’ habitat and land that will ensure a contiguous interior forest. Acquisitions will be more difficult without the benefit of state matching funds that are no longer available to us, but we continue to look for other grant funding. In the end, the number of acres we can preserve in this completion phase is up to us.
Over the Past Four Years –
Building the Preserve It has been a remarkable endeavor. Our Nature Preserve has grown to 593 acres with another 95 pending. To make such a large preserve possible, islanders and friends donated or pledged an amazing $1.8 million. The Door County Land Trust applied for and received $1.2 million in matching governmental grants. We are now the largest Door County Land Trust nature preserve. Who would have thought it possible? Tom Clay, DCLT Executive Director
We project that $800,000 is needed to finish the job. We have tentative commitments for $450,000 which means we need to raise the final $350,000 to finish what we started five years ago. Then together, as friends and neighbors, we will celebrate the lasting natural legacy we have created. Our efforts will endure for generations. Thanks to each and every one of you for all you have made possible.
Mary Jane Rintelman, CINP Co-Chair
Suzanne Fletcher, CINP Co-Chair
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Chambers Island Nature Spring 2018 Report
CHAMBERS ISLAND
CHAMBERSCHAMBERS ISLAND ISLAND Nature Preserve Preserve Door County, Wisconsin Nature Preserve Door County, Wisconsin Door County, June Wisconsin 1, 2018
June 1, 2018 Nature Preserve
Creating the Preserve One Land Parcel at a Time
88%
Raised/committed
12%
Funding Progress
Needed
Thanks to the generosity of islanders, friends, conservation partners, and foundations, 88% of the funds needed for the preserve has been raised or committed. These funds have provided for land acquisitions, completed or in progress, of almost 700 acres. Remaining funds, pledges, and additional donations secured during the upcoming Completion Campaign will be used to acquire priority preserve 0 parcels and wetlands. For up-to-date information, go to www.ChambersIslandNaturePreserve.org
Acquired Land and Land Acquisition in Progress
Land Acquisition Completed
Land Land Acquisition In Progress Land Acquisition Completed Proposed Land for Acquisition Land Land A Acquisition Proposed
Land Land Acquisition In Progress Land Land A Acquisition Proposed
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• To date, 593 acres of forest and wetlands with another 95 pending • More than a mile of Lake Mackaysee shoreline, and by the end 2018, its two islands • Additional wetlands and parcels to create a more contiguous preserve are completion priorities
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Feet
1000
We’ve Saved
We’re Sustaining
3000
• 171 confirmed bird species that depend on island habitat for breeding and migration • A key link in the migration flyway from South America to the Arctic • Water quality critical to the Great Lakes watershed • 460,000 trees and 2,000 plus acres of contiguous forest • A home to threatened and special species of bats, birds, butterflies and insects
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• 353 plant species including the only muskeg bog in the Grand Traverse Islands • The elimination of invasive species, led by islander Debbie Feirer
We’re Studying
• Wisconsin Bird Atlas, a current five-year study of island breeding birds, led by islander Robin Squier • Ongoing photographic documentation of bird, butterfly and other species, led by islander Naseem Reza • Small mammal study in 2017, conducted by Adam Brandt, St. Norbert College • Ongoing monarch butterfly habitat and propagation, led by islander Carol Grelck • Hands on nature activities with DCLT, 2016 & 2017 • BioBlitz environmental inventory with Milwaukee’s Urban Ecology Center, August 2018
T���� Y�� O�� ��� A��! Since we launched our fundraising efforts in the fall of 2014, you have responded with generous donations and pledges. This terrific sign of island support strengthens our case as we approach foundations and individuals who may not know Chambers or the Door County Land Trust as intimately as we all do.
Gifts Received through April 30, 2018 Ahrendt, Meg Fitzgerald Alsdorf, Charles and Ellen Anonymous * Anonymous Anonymous Barger, Lucia Fitzgerald * Baudhuin, Dick and Joan Baudhuin, Mike and Connie Blahnik Investment Group Blahnik, James and Judith Blahnik, Joel and Mary Ann Blahnik, Jon and Christianna * John C Bock Foundation * Brevard, Athelea, John and Vivian Brevard, Mary * Brevard, Mathew and Julie Brevard, Ryan and Marianne Hugh and Helena Brogan Foundation * Brumder, Fritz and Molly Brumder, Robo and Kathy * Busch, Lynn and Sharon (Krause) Chomeau, Alice Fitzgerald Craig, Richard and Barbara Dauffenbach, Darrin and Dawn Dauffenbach, Wally and Mary Dhein, Justin Dobyns, Alicia Stenger * Dobyns, Rachel Hanna Doerr, David and Marilyn Drake, Thallis Hoyt Ellison, Margaret Elmore, Joann * Feirer, Russ and Debbie * Fitzgerald, Barbara Fitzgerald, Carolyn Fitzgerald, Douglas Fitzgerald, Roger and Sharon Fitzgerald, Tim and Myers, Christa
* additional and new gifts since April 2017
Fletcher, Grant and Keeter, Laura * Fletcher, John Fletcher, Robert and Suzanne * Frank, Holley T Frank, John and Sunderland, Elsie Frank, Peter and Katy Frank, Reid, Alex and AvaKate Frank, Rick and Barbara * Frank, Willow P Grelck, Dick and Carol * Haggerty, Mike and Jeanie * Harris, David * Hurley, Monica* Kant, Karen Keith, Annie Keith, Lloyd and Inge Kennedy, Mike and Carol * Kennedy, Patrick and Beth Knowles, Michael and Marilyn Kuehn, Andy Kuehn, Gregg and Kathy * Kuehn, John Laird, Amy Laird, Ben and Rintelman, Mary Jane * Laird, Emily and Schafer, Eric * Laird, Lisa Lardinois, Tom and Cindy Laske, Larry and Barb* Medtronic Foundation * Miller, Ed and Sandy * Mueller, David and Erin Mueller, Peter * Munch, John and Nancy * Pagano, Kristin on behalf of the Laske Family Parkes, Johanna * Persell, Charles and Caroline Polzin, Donald and Jacqueline
We still need your help to get us over the finish line. Make a donation or pledge today!
www.ChambersIslandNaturePreserve.org/donate Be sure to indicate your gift is for the Chambers Island Nature Preserve in the comments box. Your gift deserves to be acknowledged. If we have made an error or omitted your name from the list, please notify us so we may correct it for future publications.
Reinders, Craig and Karen Reza Guthrie, Nina Reza, Kevin Reza, Naseem and Lou * Rintelman, JR and Linda * Rogers, Pete and Fawn Salesforce.org, in recognition of Kristin Pagano Sargent Family Foundation * Scheinoha, Chad and Jenny Schwaller, Gerry * Sokol, George and Chrissy * Spitzley, John and Judy Spitzley, Kelly Squier, Robin Squier, Susan and Roper, Gowen Stenger Riplinger, Cynthia and Riplinger, Mike * Stenger, Michael and Thieda, Su Stenger, Michele and Gracz, Mike Stone, Tim and Sue Thenell, Matthew and Heather Thrivent Financial/Thrivent Choice Trainer Family Foundation Trainer, Charles and Booth, Anne * Trainer, Robert and Carrie * Trainer, Robert and Mary * David and Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation David V Uihlein Sr Foundation * Uihlein, Lynde B. * Uihlein, Margery * Robert A Uihlein Foundation, Inc * Van Gemert, Rob and Jensen, Marilyn Villota, Gwynne Weber, Charles and Sigrid Wisconsin Land Fund of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation We also thank the following who have provided funding and assistance: Fox River and Green Bay Natural Resource Trustee Council WI Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program The Nature Conservancy US Fish & Wildlife Service, North American Wetland Conservation Act Grant
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Chambers Island Nature Preserve
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Protecting Door County’s Exceptional Lands and Waters Forever
Committee Chairs Suzanne Fletcher Mary Jane Rintelman
Subcommittees Landowners Dick Baudhuin (Chair) Jeff Krause Lynn Busch Mike Baudhuin Pete Rogers Development Mary Brevard (Chair) Barbara Frank Robo Brumder Fawn Rogers Dick Grelck Finance/Legal Ben Laird Discovery & Acquisition Terrie Cooper (Door County Land Trust) JR Rintelman Nature Study Debbie and Russ Feirer (Chairs) Robin Squier Naseem Reza Tim Fitzgerald Carol Grelck Public & Media Relations Mary Jane Rintelman (Chair) Suzanne Fletcher Kelly Spitzley Kevin Reza Project Contacts Suzanne Fletcher suzanne_fletcher@hms.harvard.edu Terrie Cooper tcooper@doorcountylandtrust.org
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President Jeff Ottum President-Elect Donna DeNardo Treasurer Bryan Nelson Secretary Donna Hake Past President Kathy Wolff
Jean Barrett Tom Blackwood Peter Deschler Jack Finger Barbara Frank Mark Martin Judy Perkins Gretchen Schmelzer Roy Thilly Rob Watson Karen Yancey
Staff
Executive Director Tom Clay Community Conservation Director Terrie Cooper Administrative Assistant Amy Dwyer Land Protection and Stewardship Specialist Jesse Koyen Stewardship and Restoration Manager Amanda Pyke Administrative Director Kristi Rice Conservation Easement Program Manager Drew Reinke Development Director Cinnamon Rossman Land Program Director Julie Schartner Main Office Office: 23 N. Fifth Avenue Mailing: PO Box 65, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Phone: (920)746-1359 • Fax: (920)746-1024 Email: info@doorcountylandtrust.org www.DoorCountyLandTrust.org