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Kenosha/Racine Land Trust

Protect, Preserve and Restore Southeastern Wisconsin's Great and Beautiful Landscape!

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." John Muir

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Jean McGraw Memorial Nature Preserve PowerPoint Presentation Click Here
Karen Bassler of Gathering Waters Conservancy spoke to the Caledonia Open Space Committee about how to recognize a qualified Land Trust. Click here to see her presentation...

The Kenosha/Racine Journal is now online. You can read K/RLT's current and past newsletters by clicking on the links below: Fall/Winter 07- newsletter, insert Spring/Summer 07- full newsletter Archives: Fall/Winter 06- Part 1, Part 2 Spring/Summer 06- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3		You can now read President Chuck Haubrich's current and past articles published in the Racine Journal Times: *2007 Wrap Up* February 11,2008 "I believe our success was largely driven by people realizing that sprawl development and its accompanying road warrior lifestyle are major contributing factors to global warming and energy security and that the solution to both begins with protecting the remaining land from development. The US is losing approximately 6000 acres a day to development, a rate of four acres per minute..." Click here for the full article.

`Groups Push 2007 Conservation Agenda` by Nancy Pierce (as published in the Racine Journal Times) Racine/Kenosha Land Trust Last week I had the opportunity, along with 30 people from the Racine area, to attend Conservation Lobby Day in Madison to discuss the four key focus areas for conservation for the 2007 session. We met with Rep. Robin Vos, Sen. John Lehman, Rep. Cory Mason and the staff of Rep. Robert Turner. Conservation, is critical to our district as well as to our county and to all of Southeast Wisconsin. We truly do live in a special place and as well we all understand, special also means challenging! Do you know that airline pilots refer to our area as the green gem as we are the only green space they see between Milwaukee and Gary, Indiana? Is that a tag we want to keep? Does it have value to our citizens both individually and economical? My answer is yes.`Click here for full article`		Archives: A frog does not drink up the pond, 7/07 Ask not what the environment can do for you, 11/06 Land Trusts Celebrate Conservation Successes, 10/06 Where is Roosevelt when we need him? 8/06 K/RLT Signs onto Eagle Lake Restoration Project, 7/06 An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure, 5/06 Best of the past and future, 4/06 More Folks Working to Save their Family Farms, 2/06 Saving the Family Farm, 1/06 Smart Growth Plans Progress, 11/05 K/RLT Seeks Conservation Buyers, 8/05 Home, Land Security, 6/04 Land trust makes great strides in protecting local landscape, 11/03

Wisconsin Author Jane Hamilton: Going "Up Country" to Glen Carrie The Kenosha/Racine Land Trust was fortunate to have Jane Hamilton, a resident of Rochester, Wisconsin, lend her literary talent to the most recent Kenosha/Racine Journal. Hamilton is the highly acclaimed author of such novels as The Book of Ruth (for which she won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel) and A Map of the World, both of which were Oprah Book Club selections. Her most recent novel, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. Click here for the full article and the rest of the newsletter: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Systems Theory and Working Together by Nancy Pierce Environment and Art are all about interacting and interlocking systems. Organizations and business have in a sense “rediscovered” systems theory after decades of individual task theory that arose out of the Industrial Revolution. The Kenosha/Racine Land Trust has and continues to focus on the value of working with other groups and individuals in collaborative, initiative and partner activities. What have been the outcomes of some of these activities? We’ve had the pleasure of working with Sustainable Racine’s Environmental group on helping to create Janes Native Garden at Janes School in downtown Racine. In April, we co-sponsored the seminar, “Managing Weeds in your Backyard” at the Seno Center with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, Racine County Land Conservation Division, Kenosha & Racine UW-Extension, The Seno Center and the Kenosha County Land and Water Conservation Division. This event was our third group collaboration. The Land Trust was a working partner in the recent RaCE event which was initiated by the Racine County Economic Development Corp. to increase the image of Racine County. Other participants were Sustainable Racine, Leadership Racine and Union Grove, the Chambers of Burlington, Waterford and Union Grove, Young Professional of Racine, Racine County Convention and Visitors Bureau and Racine County Economic Development Corporation. We continue to work and partner with the Village of Caledonia on Conservation Subdivisions easements. How does all of this benefit our community? In systems theory, it does not matter how different we may appear, there are always connecting threads and finding those threads will keep Racine and Kenosha known as places where people want to live.

Kenosha/Racine Land Trust, Inc.
P.O. Box 085153
Racine, WI 53408-5153
Telephone 262-552-6861
infokrlt at krlt.org

Land trust makes great strides in protecting local landscape, 11/03