Lansing

Celebrate National Public Lands Day by helping keep our critical dunes free of invasive plants! Volunteers will help remove privet, barberry and non-native honeysuckle from the park. No experience is necessary; volunteers will be trained to identify target species, and all equipment will be provided

Help protect native habitat in Waterloo Recreation Area, the largest state park in the Lower Peninsula. Waterloo is home to a plethora of native ecosystems, with 25 unique natural communities forming the diverse landscape. We will be stewarding remnant black oak barrens and prairie by cutting and

Join us in protecting a valuable dry sand prairie ecosystem in Pinckney Recreation Area, where 22 unique natural communities form the diverse landscape. We will be stewarding this fire-dependent natural community by cutting and treating invasive shrubs threatening native plants that call it home.

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Twentieth century urban renewal practices had a profound impact on neighborhoods across Michigan. Two of them, Lansing's Westside and Detroit's Black Bottom, saw the destruction of homes, businesses and community institutions for the building of new highways. Learn the stories of those neighborhoods