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Landscriptsummer 2017 Volume 68 landscriptSUMMER 2017 Volume 68 Proposed Preserve on Upper Manistee Expansive Protection Map Farms and Farming PHOTO BY NOAH JURIK/ STONE HUT STUDIOS Proposed Upper Manistee Headwaters Preserve Protecting significant natural, scenic and farm lands, and advancing stewardship - now and for all future generations. A LETTER FROM GLEN CHOWN GTRLC Saves Dear Friends: Increased development pressure has meant that the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy has Sand Lakes had to respond more quickly to more threats than ever in our 26-year history. Parcel We recently stepped in to save a 160-acre piece of land that is tremendously important from a recreational standpoint (see story on this page). Only a few short weeks after we A 160-acre parcel of vital recreation learned Grand Traverse County planned to sell the parcel, land will be protected forever after we made a formal offer to acquire the property as part of quick action by the Conservancy. the Pere Marquette State Forest. Thanks to an outpouring The parcel, situated in Grand Traverse of support from hundreds within the bicycle racing and County’s Whitewater Township, is recreational communities, the county accepted. Had we not surrounded on all sides by the Pere been able to move quickly, a critical public corridor used Marquette State Forest. It contains a by two popular mountain bike races and countless cyclists, section of the Traverse City to Kalkaska skiers and hikers may have been lost forever. Trail and has been used for nearly 30 years by the tremendously popular We faced a similar situation when the Boy Scouts gave Iceman Cometh Challenge mountain us a limited time to close on the former Camp Tapico bike race. In addition, the parcel is also in Kalkaska County (see story on page 6). Fortunately, used for the Mud, Sweat and Beers Conservancy supporters Richard and Diana Milock offered mountain bike race and serves as the us a three-year, interest-free loan, and we received a main access point for Bullhead Lake. substantial lead gift from another longtime ally: The J.A. Woollam Foundation. This support literally “buys us time” Grand Traverse County owned the to raise the money needed to permanently protect this land since 1977, but decided to sell it spectacular property and make it accessible to the public. this year as part of a plan to alleviate pension debt. The parcel had been on The things we treasure about the Grand Traverse region are GTRLC’s land protection radar for years, no longer a secret. And while it would be nice if we could and when it was listed for sale in late dictate the pace of our land protection projects, we simply May, GTRLC sprang into action and had do not have that luxury. a purchase offer to the county within a Our visionary board of directors has placed a premium matter of days. on our ability to act quickly, and our dedicated staff is The Conservancy’s $255,000 offer was prepared to tackle the challenges ahead. But we won’t not the highest bid the county received, be able to say “yes” to every project that meets our land but an outpouring of support convinced protection criteria without the increased support from commissioners to accept the offer over committed donors that enable us to respond when critical competing offers of $352,000 and parcels of land become available. $266,000. GTRLC plans to transfer the land to the state of Michigan within the Read on to learn about our latest efforts to save important next few years. land throughout our region. Thank you for your support! Iceman founder Steve Brown said he believes the Conservancy’s track record of success was important to commissioners, as was its ability to Glen Chown, GTRLC Executive Director SAND LAKES DNR ASSIST PROTECTING SIGNIFICANT NATURAL, SCENIC AND FARM LANDS, AND ADVANCING STEWARDSHIP, NOW AND FOR ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS GTRLC.ORG EAST BAY Bunker Hill Rd k W e e M e r 31 72 st C ll A e r s m s i A B cm e C Truax L re ek Bartlett Rd A k Trailhead c e m e e r C C r le Holiday Rd e tt e a k B 5 Mile Rd B a k e r s C r e e k Williamsburg Rd Bullhead Lake Sand Lakes Rd Perch Lake The Rock Sand Lakes Hammond Rd High Lake High Rd Supply Rd Hobbs Hwy Twin Lakes Strombolis Lake Supply Rd Trailhead Vandervoight Tibbets Lake Lake Dollar Lake Indian Lake iver Chandler an R rdm oa Lake B ch Island Lake an Br orth High N Spider Lake Lake LEGEND North Country Trail Sand Lakes DNR Assist TC to Kalkaska Trail Mud, Sweat, and Beers 2017 State Land 0 0.5 1 Miles Vasa/TART Trails Iceman 2016 GTRLC Protected Properties, Owned and Managed by DNR quickly make an offer. He also greatly appreciated Brown, while glad to see the route for Iceman GTRLC Executive Director Glen Chown’s speech to preserved, is far more excited about the parcel being commissioners in front of a packed meeting room. protected in perpetuity. “Glen’s leadership really proved to be instrumental “To me personally, it wasn’t really about the route here,” Brown said. “I don’t think the county had of the Iceman course nearly as much as it was about really thought of it as a recreational piece or how it preserving that piece of property as an integral part fit into the state forest.” of the Pere Marquette State Forest,” he said. “This is for the generations yet to come.” This is the second time in recent years that GTRLC stepped up and preserved trail access in that area. Brown’s Iceman organization has made a generous In 2010, GTRLC helped secure a key piece of land challenge grant in which it will match every donation near Kalkaska – dubbed the “Kalkaska Connector” dollar for dollar, up to $20,000. – that created a permanent public corridor for “We’re excited to have played a role in protecting motorized and non-motorized trail users alike land that is so important for recreation,” Chown said. and preserved a key link for trail users traveling “This is a perfect example of our need to be able to between Traverse City and Kalkaska. act fast to protect the places that people love.” GTRLC.ORG 3 Denny moved here right after graduating college. “It doesn’t get He met Deb, a Bellaire native, while working at Schuss Mountain, and they settled on Old Mission much better Peninsula. Kevin and Kathy also moved to Traverse City, and Terry and Sally moved to Torch full time than this.” after Terry retired in 1995. MALONE FAMILY’S LOVE OF THE Denny came to love Old Mission in the same way Terry became connected to Torch Lake. REGION SPANS GENERATIONS “Deb and I have been really fortunate to be able to travel a lot, and we like to bike. We’ve been biking As with so many others before him, it wasn’t hard in Italy, we’ve been biking out in California in wine for Terry Malone to fall in love with Torch Lake. county, in Costa Rica, but inevitably we come back and go for a ride on Old Mission Peninsula, and we Terry was fortunate enough to marry into a realize it doesn’t get much better than this,” Denny connection with Michigan’s longest inland lake said. “It’s a really special place – really unique.” when he wed his wife, Sally, in 1955. She and her family had regularly vacationed there ever since her Terry and Denny are both regular donors to father built a cottage along the the Conservancy because shores of Torch Lake in 1933, “We’d come here pretty much the day they feel strongly about and she was eager to show him after school got out and we’d come home GTRLC’s mission. the day before school started,” Denny her northern paradise. “This area is going to continue said. “We spent our entire summers up to be developed, and I’m not Terry, who was raised in Boston here, and it was just great.” and Chicago, got his first glimpse opposed to that - I think it’s important from the standpoint of what would become one of his greatest passions of offering jobs and economic growth,” Terry said. on a trip up north not long after his wedding. “But we also need to have that development not be “The first time I saw Torch Lake I remember random or excessive, because we need to preserve thinking it looked like the Caribbean – that the rural character and natural beauty of the area, wonderful turquoise color with these beautiful which is the biggest attraction. rolling hills around it, largely wooded and very “I think the Conservancy is very important in rural,” Terry said this year. “It was a very quiet, helping us achieve that balance,” Terry continued. peaceful setting, and it didn’t take me long to fall in “Where there are areas that need to be protected, love with it.” we really ought to do it. Because if we don’t take So began a multi-generational connection with very good care of the assets we have – the land, Torch – and the greater Grand Traverse region – for the lakes, the natural beauty – we run the risk of losing them.” Terry and his family. Based in Wisconsin while Terry worked as an executive for S.C. Johnson, Sally Both Terry and Denny also have future generations and the couple’s three children – Denny, Kevin and in mind.
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