1996 – BRC Incorporated 1997 - Trail easements started for the Brownstone Trail 1999 – First Executive Director hired 2000 – Corny Beachland purchase in partnership with the Town of Bell 2001 – First private land protection at Lewis Lake, +300 acres 2002 – Big Ravine Trail completed 2003 – Farmland Preservation Program began with two farmland easements 2004 – First land acquisition along the White River 2005 – First Mt. Ashwabay Ski Hill land purchase in partnership with Ashwabay Outdoor Education Foundation 2005 – Nourse Sugar Bush (at Mt. Ashwabay) land purchase 2006 – Plum Creek property acquired at Mt. Ashwabay in partnership with Bayfield County Forestry 2008 – Lost Creek Bog land purchase – annexed to Lost Creek Bog State Natural Area 2009 – Houghton Falls Nature Preserve property purchased in partnership with Town of Bayview, Trust for Public Land, NOAA CELCP, and private landowners 2010 – First Marengo River land protection project 2011 – Frog Bay purchase to become Frog Bay Tribal National Park 2012 - Frog Bay Tribal National Park opened 2012 - 230 acres preserved at Lost Creek II and III 2013 - Lincoln Community Forest opened in the Town of Lincoln (1st Community Forest in the state) 2013 - 500 acres protected forever on a tributary of the Brule river 2013 - 10 acres of Boreal Forest protected forever along Scenic Byway 13 2014 - 80 acres of working land and forest protected in Ashland county 2014 - 15 acres on a small in-land lake in Bayfield county protected 2014 - North Pikes Creek watershed headwaters property acquired as the North Pikes Creek Wetlands Community Forest (the 2nd Community Forest in the state) 2014 - 40 additional acres of the Big Ravine acquired 2015 - 3 conservation easements donated 2016 - Additional conservation work, including a conservation easement on Spider Lake and work in the Siskiwit River watershed
_Bayfield Regional Conservancy ~ 33 N. 1st Street, Bayfield, WI 54814 ~ 715.779.5263 ~ [email protected]