Tall Pines Conservancy Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Oct 22, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$670,768

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Land managementwe continued to work on adopting policies to meet best practices standards of the land trust alliance and in preparation for accreditation. Our outreach strategies included working with landowners in the towns of oconomowoc, ashippun, merton, delafield and ashippun. We continued our monitoring program with newly trained volunteers, and conducted an invasive species removal work day with arrowhead high students at camp/quad in addition to hosting university lake school students at north lake.

Activity 3

Conservation educationthe third tpc ride to the barns a cycling event that highlighted local farms and local food was very well received and attracted over 200 cyclists. Fall harvest 2011 was attended by 300 people hosted by the zwieg maple acres farm, it featured farm tours and local food along with a concert by michael perry and the longbeds. In october, tall pines hosted a field trip for 50 land trust professionals as a part of the national land trust alliance conference, rally (held in milwaukee in 2011) to the zwieg farm and camp quad. Tpc partnered again with the tyme out center and the merton town hall library and sunseed on the lake country farmers market. It was a big success attracting over 200 attendees at each market and featuring cooking demonstrations. Tpc had a table at the market offering general information to the community on land preservation our slogan was no land, no farms, no food. In 2011, tall pines was featured in articles in the milwaukee journal, 30 west and on wuwm (npr affiliate) in a segment on preservation of the zwieg farm. In 2011, tall pines started the land conservation partnership fund, with the goal of raising $1.5 million to fund future preservation projects. Our current membership stands at approximately 500.

Filer

EIN

39-1966972