OSCEOLA-LAKE CONSERVATION DISTRICT
Conservation Education & Promotion
Education
Attention Teachers!
Here are some excellent educational websites….
Go to Bat Guide to learn how to
get information on BATS!
Click here for information about Recycling
and Composting Information
Educational
Websites for Kids:
S.K.
Worm Answers Your Questions About Soil and Stuff
EPA - Student Center
National Wildlife Federation
Do
L.A.P.S. for Michigan
(Learn from the past, Appreciate the present, Preserve
our outdoor heritage.)
Dumptown
Game
Ground
Water and Drinking Water: An Expert Guide for Kids
Educational
Websites for Teachers/Leaders:
EPA - Teachers
Project Wild
Project Learning Tree
Project Wet
Leopold Education Project
Great Lakes
Stewardship Initiative
Michigan
Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS)
Michigan
Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE)
Kids for
Saving Earth (KSE)
The
Forest History Society
4-H
Environmental & Outdoor Education
Promotion
Join our growing list of Lifetime and Annual Sponsors
Becoming a sponsor and giving a contribution helps fund the
conservation programs that manage, protect and improve our natural resources.
Included in your sponsorship package:
Annual Sponsorship ($40.00)
- *2%
Discount on all products sold through the District office and
during our Spring & Fall Tree Sales.
- One (1) District
T-shirt
- One (1) District
Hat
- Sponsorship Card
- District Window
Sticker
- Two (2) Newsletters
per Year
Annual Sponsorship Renewal ($15.00)
- *2% Discount on all
products sold through the District office and during our Spring &
Fall Tree Sales.
- Sponsorship Card
- Two (2) Newsletters
per Year
Lifetime Sponsorship ($200.00)
- *2% Discount on all
products sold through the District office and during our Spring &
Fall Tree Sales.
- Two (2) District
T-shirts
- Two (2) District
Hats
- District Window
Sticker
- Lifetime
Certificate
- Sponsorship Card
- Two (2) Newsletters
per Year
*Discount applies to all items
sold at the District office and through our Seedling Sales except:
-Tree Planting Spade Rental
-Tree Shrub Seedlings when receiving cost-share
When placing your next tree
order just add the sponsorship you choose to your order form (please include
T-shirt sizes).
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
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Unique Tree Hunt
Many
thanks to those who forwarded pictures of "unique trees" in Osceola, Lake, and Mecosta Counties. We will continue to
collect pictures and show them in future newsletters and on this website.
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White
Cedar Seedling
growing in crotch
of Red Maple-Burdell
Township (MDOT Property)
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How many
trees?
Spruce tree in
Chase Township
Photo courtesy of Bill
Baar
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Multiple
Stemmed
Red Pine in
Ellsworth Township
Photo courtesy of
Bill Vertalka
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Japanese
and American
Elm tree graft located
at Paris Park - Paris, MI
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Stem
Disease on Black Oak
Cherry Valley
Township
(State Land)
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White
Oak located at the
East end of Clear Lake in
Colfax Township
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Photos
courtesy of Gary Fitch - Big Rapids Township
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Rock Island
Hemlock
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Yellow
Birch
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Photos
courtesy of Roy Holmquist
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Burdell
Township
Ironwood Tree
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Lake County
White Oak
Registered in 1839 as a
10-inch diameter section
corner witness tree
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White
Birch growing
from a White Pine stump
Rick Lucas Property
in
Richmond Township
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Twisted Stem White Pine
Lincoln Township
Rick Lucas Property
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Two Beech
trees joined
into one at
Gingrich Tree Farm
in Lincoln
Township
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Contact Us:
138 W. Upton, Suite #2
Reed City, MI 49677
Contact: Charmaine Lucas charmaine.lucas@mi.nacdnet.net
Phone (231) 832-2950
Fax (231) 832-2683
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