January 25, 2025

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The Thumb Naturalist.......

With a new year, the Thumb Land Conservancy News has a new name and slightly new focus. The Thumb Land Conservancy dates back to 2008 officially, but 5 years prior to that, I thought about creating a publication dedicated to nature of the Thumb region and drafted the first edition of The Thumb Naturalist 22 years ago in January of 2003. But at that time, there wasn't much of a mailing list to send it to, so it was never published. Gradually, our TLC news approached the publication I envisioned. Now, with our transition to The Thumb Naturalist, in addition to our conservancy news, we hope to include more articles or other works about nature in our region. As always, anyone can contribute, whether you would like to write about a species, a natural area, or submit a story, a poem, an opinion, a photograph, artwork, video link, or just about anything. A few things we strive for in our news, and continuing with The Thumb Naturalist, are to be informative, educational, generally transparent, real, sometimes funny, and encouraging in an otherwise dismal world. As an introduction to The Thumb Naturalist, I want to start with the first 2003 January Issue. It is almost unchanged from the original draft except that I have added information about the last two articles that I never got around to writing. Keep in mind that this first issue is from 22 years ago, so some of the contact information for the Michigan Nature Association is dated, and they did purchase the 9-acre Sharon Rose Leonatti Sanctuary in Kimball Township in Saint Clair County, shortly after this was written. - Bill Collins, Executive Director, TLC



Article Index For This Issue:

The Thumb Naturalist

Bidwell Sanctuary Coastal Trail Development

Lexington County Park Natural Features
and Accessibility Plan Review

Loznak Sanctuary Invasive Shrub Removal
and Seed Collection

Shorewood Forrest Southeast Sanctuary Trail Clearing

New Southern Lake Huron Coastal Park Connection

Wetland Conservation Program Grants

Four County Community Foundation Grant

Land Trust Alliance Grant

Ramsar Designation For The Saint Clair River Delta

World Wetlands Day

Ramsar Designation For The Saint Clair River Delta
By Teddy Wiley, TLC Program and Stewardship Assistant

TLC 2024 Annual Report

2024 TLC Supporters

You Got The Power In 2024
Save Nature Any Place! Sustain Native Animals & Plants!

TLC Winter Stewardship

Clyde Historical Society

One Special Gull

Thyme - Thymus vulgaris

Mysterious Creatures at Silver Trails Scout Camp

Dispatch From A Lapeer County Outpost

The Last Black Spruce in Saint Clair County?

Pre Euro-American Settlement Vegetation

Jack-in-the-Pulpits

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Marlette, Michigan 48453

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