Conservancy for Healing & Heritage

The Conservancy owns 36.5 acres in total with the predominant tree species being White Oaks of approximately 150 yrs in age, Sugar Maples approximately 100 yrs of age. Other trees in abundance are American Basswood, Black Cherry and Northern Red Oak. In 2020, we completed a tree survey 25 ft on either side of our Lake & Nature Trails. Please find that survey included. This beautiful piece of land was born in ice. Roughly 10,000 years ago, a dying glacier piled up a steep ridge of rocks, gravel, and soil on this site. The last remnant of ice buried itself at the foot of the ridge and then melted, creating what is now Kopmeier Lake. As plants returned—first evergreens and then hardwoods—humans entered the scene. Native Americans used both the kettle lake and the glacial ridge for thousands of years.