Yellow Springs Land Conservation Alliance, Inc. was formed to purchase and protect the beloved green spaces in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Our first campaign is the open space behind Antioch College, known to locals as the “golf course.” This land is a bustling ecosystem full of milkweed and goldenrod, providing habitat for our declining monarch population, foxes, hawks, and even coyotes.
Monarch butterflies are an indicator species, with their numbers declining over the last 25 years due to factors such as habitat loss, pesticide use, and other systemic environmental problems. Invasive callery pears need to be managed on this land, and the college has just mowed them— along with acres and acres of milkweed plants at prime monarch egg-laying time—every spring.
Our goal is to rewild the acreage with native plant species to increase biodiversity, ensuring the land remains accessible to the community to enjoy as open space, and to provide hands-on educational opportunities for rewilding native grasslands.
