 Friends
of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve
There is no better way to support the Preserve than to join the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, a non-profit organization that supports the Preserve in myriad ways: through volunteering, fundraising, stewardship projects, publications, and interpretive programs.
We urge everyone to consider joining the Friends.
Friends' website
The Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve maintains a rich and extensive website. Anyone interested in learning more about the Preserve would be well advised to explore and get to know its contents. To help you find your way to key parts of the website, we suggest visiting and bookmarking the following links:
Mission of the Friends
The Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve is a non-profit organization
that serves as an advocate for the active stewardship of the Preserve. The
Friends works to ensure the integrity of the Preserve by recommending
appropriate policies and guidelines, by collaborating in stewardship activities
and by fostering concern about the impact of contiguous development. It
aims to preserve, protect, and nurture the Preserve through the vicissitudes
of time.
The Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve:
- encourages appropriate and constructive use of the Preserve,
- brings to the university's Preserve Committee the views and concerns
of the Friends Board and membership,
- communicates university policies and recommendations concerning the
Preserve to its membership and the broader community,
- offers the experience and expertise of its membership,
- provides a long-term continuity which seeks to protect the Preserve
through changing committee memberships and university administrations,
- seeks a cooperative working relationship with the university's Preserve
Committee,
- supports the use of the Preserve as a learning environment,
- recruits volunteers for stewardship activities, and
- raises funds to assist in carrying out the mutual goals of the Friends
and the Preserve Committee.
We repeat: there is no better way to support the Preserve than to join the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, and we urge everyone to do so. You can learn how to join the Friends by visiting their website at http://waa.uwalumni.com/lakeshorepreserve/.
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