Protecting 56 Acres in Charlevoix County

Dec. 16, 2023

December marked a milestone for the Little Traverse Conservancy (LTC): the land trust’s largest ever financial investment in land. It was a dream a year in the making to raise the funds to purchase 56 acres—including a quarter-mile of Lake Michigan Shoreline—in the small Charlevoix County community of Bay Shore. Jennifer Adderley, an LTC member, the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation, Inc., and an anonymous donor led the charge (along with nearly 150 other donors and groups) to protect this wooded sanctuary, which will be called Enji-minozhiiyaamigak, the Anishinaabemowin word for “The Place of Peacefulness.” All signs in the natural area will be in Anishinaabemowin first and English following. Enji-minozhiiyaamigak will also be home to LTC’s first owned and cared-for universally accessible trail; the goal is for the trail to open in 2024. For more information on the property, visit landtrust.org.