Blue Heron Ministries offers several ecological restoration services. We work on our own properties as well as on public and private properties belonging to individual landowners, municipalities, and other non-profit organizations to restore them to their native ecology. We do this with a desire to care for Creation and be a part of healing the land. These are some of the services we offer:
Natural Lands Restoration
Restoring this region’s open space to its unique native ecology.
- Prescribed burning
- Brush and field mowing
- Local seed harvesting
- Seeding
- Shoreline restoration and native landscaping
- Herbicide application
- Invasive species control
Conservation Design
Developing custom plans to achieve proposed land use goals.
- Consultations
- Site visits
- Design plans
- Cost estimates
- Implementation of design plans
Land Trust
Keeping land obtained through donation or purchase as wildlife sanctuaries.
- La Tierra Sanctuary
- Badger Barrens
- Tamarack Lake
- Feick Family Nature Preserve
Education
Sharing about local and cultural landscapes and our mandate to steward Creation.
- School environmental education programs
- Community environmental education programs
- Conference presentations