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Meet Sam Gutekanst, one member of our multi-talented, engaged, experienced, and thoroughly brilliant board of directors! Sam might be the youngest on our board, but he’s an old pro when it comes to plants. He brings to us a keen botanical point of view, and knows the vast majority of native plants in Ohio, especially…

In case you missed our most recent newsletter, catch up on news about making our forests healthier, how your QCD can help efforts to preserve land, Lindy’s Preserve opens, meet a board member, and a Winding Road grant funds land acknowledgement. Simply click here to read the newsletter as a webpage.

Meet Phil Cantino, one member of our multi-talented, engaged, experienced, and thoroughly brilliant board of directors! An avid birder, Phil is a founding member of Athens Conservancy, and enjoyed a 30-year career as a professor in the Ohio University Department of Environmental and Plant Biology. Why is spending time outdoors important to you? Being outdoors…

Athens Conservancy’s board of directors is a multi-talented, engaged, experienced, and thoroughly brilliant group! We want you to get to know them, too. Here’s Greg Kessler, who joined the board in 2022. A 25-year resident of Athens County, Greg lives on a forested parcel adjacent to the Ridges. He’s a professor and department chair in…

Athens Conservancy’s board of directors is a multi-talented, engaged, experienced, and thoroughly brilliant group! We want you to get to know them, too. Meet Andrea Miller, who joined the board in 2022. Andrea grew up on her great grandmother’s farm in southeast Ohio, and is the sustainable forestry program manager at Rural Action. Why is…

We’re kicking off a new feature called Trail Tips this month. Whether you’re brand new to hiking or a seasoned pro at hitting the trails, check out our monthly tips here. For June, we’re starting with some hiking basics, and next month, we’ll dig deeper into what to wear … or helpful trail fashion basics,…

A beautiful spring afternoon, and even a bit of unexpected sunshine, welcomed more than 125 guests to the opening celebration of the new Lindy Roosenburg Preserve north of Athens near Chauncey. Lindy’s family and friends and many, many community members joined the Conservancy for the April 30 event officially opening our newest nature preserve. The…

Athens Conservancy, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Athens Arbor Day Committee, a couple of environmentally conscious Ohio University undergrads, and some local high school students all joined forces in late March. They got together to plant 74 American chestnut trees in the Conservancy’s newest nature preserve. The group planted the chestnut tree seedlings…

Please join us Sunday, April 30, at 1 pm for an opening celebration for the Lindy Roosenburg Preserve, Athens Conservancy’s newest nature preserve. This exceptional 71-acre property just north of Athens showcases mature forests, scenic rock formations, and an abundance of wildflowers and wildlife. The land was purchased last year in memory of Selinde Roosenburg,…

Baker Preserve is a study site for an international research project investigating the role bedrock has on forest soil nutrient and carbon cycling. This project is a collaboration between soil researchers Jared DeForest, PhD (Ohio University) and Friederike Lang, PhD (University of Freiburg, Germany). Baker Preserve is unusual in that it has both limestone and…

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for a fabulous Wildflower Walk on April 15. The sun was shining, wildflowers were all abloom, and we had a record number of flower-walkers on hand (or on foot, rather). Several groups set off from the Beaumont-Salina Trailhead, ambling along the Hockhocking-Adena Bikeway for a mile…

Athens Conservancy is pleased to announce the promotion of Bill Rucker to the new position of land steward. In this role, Bill will be responsible for overseeing the management of our natural lands, with the goal of keeping them healthy and accessible for the community to explore and enjoy. Managing the land is critical to…