Hello! My name is Noah and I was the Seasonal Stewardship Assistant this fall for the Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy. It was my job to conduct the annual site visits for properties that UPLC protects, in order to monitor the environmental condition and quality of each parcel. This was an introduction to a side of land conservation I had scarcely considered; how is a patch of trees designated a forest preserve? How does an old hunting camp become a conservation easement to p