Nature Conservancy buys island off Delta County
Source: Mlive.com
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Part of the Nature Conservancy’s recent purchase of an island in Lake Michigan is being offset by a $1 million grant to support wetlands.
Excerpt: The Nature Conservancy has received a $1 million grant to go toward its 2013 purchase of St. Martin Island and acquiring additional wetland habitat.
The Nature Conservancy in a statement Friday announced the grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The conservancy in November 2013 purchased the majority of St. Martin Island, which is about 11 miles south of the Garden Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula, between Lake Michigan and Green Bay.
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Source: Mlive.com
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