A Sense of Place
LNRP is excited to launch a series of "place" based stories that tie into our long-term investment in stewardship. Each story will look at various views of a watershed or river or ledge site... aerial views, close ups, artist renditions tied with a historical perspective. The stories elaborate on the threats and opportunities for each place, link to our paint-outs or Ledge Tour, and attempt to capture compelling reasons to extend a stewardship ethic.
A favorite Gary Synder quote is a source of LNRP’s “good neighbor and cooperative community” approach to membership and programming:
"Of all the memberships we identify ourselves by the one thing that is most forgotten, and that has the greatest potential for healing, is place. We must learn to know, love, and join our place even more than we love our own ideas. People who can agree that they share a commitment to the landscape/cityscape -- even if they are otherwise locked in struggle with each other -- have at least one deep thing to share."
LNRP’s mission is to cultivate environmental stewardship in the lakeshore region. We accomplish our mission by fostering partnerships, providing funding, promoting a forum for discussion and dialogue, and supporting activities advocating a balance between natural resource management, conservation and protection.
We look forward to sharing our sense of place through the stories that will appear in our newsletter, The Source. However, these are only excerpts from a larger collection of notes, photos, and paintings. The full portfolio can be found here on our website at www.lnrp.org/newsletter. The portfolio is a collective effort of LNRP volunteers, board members, and staff.