A LONG SOUGHT AFTER ADDITION TO THE St. Clair Lake/Six Mile Lake Natural Area has been purchased and added to a beautiful stretch of northern Michigan waterway that will now permanently remain a natural haven for all things wild.

This past winter, the Little Traverse Conservancy worked in partnership with the tireless St. Clair Lake/Six Mile Lake Natural Area Committee and Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy to purchase 69 acres and 3,800 feet of frontage along the Sinclair River. The Little Traverse Conservancy’s share of the purchase was funded by special donations and challenge grant monies. The Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy’s fund raising continues in order to cover half the cost of the land purchase plus acquisition expenses and long-term land management for the entire Natural Area .
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An Attitude of Respect
MINNESOTA NATIVES LOIS ANN AND LARRY REED HAVE ALWAYS
loved the outdoors and supported organizations that reflected their beliefs in caring for the earth. “We both grew up with the attitude we were to respect and be responsible for the environment and the creatures that share this world with us,” Lois Ann explained. While home base became Midland, Michigan, the couple and their two daughters would travel north to ski and vacation, and the Reeds bought a condominium on Round Lake near the Conservancy’s Round Lake Nature Preserve. Over the years, they watched as the beauty of the North country was increasingly lost to unrestricted development and the selling of small parcels for homes and hunting camps.

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Above: Pigeon River at the Reed property (credit: Czarnecki/Dempsey)