Tecumseh Land Trust

09/30/2026

I guess they had something to put in our office drop box...

09/28/2026

There are several wonderful upcoming opportunities to learn from members of the Shawnee Tribe & descendants of Tecumseh coming up next month!

09/25/2026

We will have a table at this event tomorrow from 1:00-4:00 PM. Come join us for a lovely Fall day!

09/22/2026

Last week we learned a Greene County landowner will be restoring a 15 acre wetland on their farm through NRCS. We love helping to connect landowners with the great conservation programs that are available.

Working with NRCS and partners, John and Sheri Paule are restoring wetland function and protecting rare native ecosystems through long-term stewardship in Iowa.

“Restoring [a wetland] and then keeping it restored takes ongoing and active management,” John said. “It’s work. It takes time. It takes resources. And if you stop, it’s just going to go back to the way it was when you found it.”

Read the Paule’s story: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/state-offices/iowa/news/restoring-a-rare-iowa-landscape-one-step-at-a-time

09/17/2026

Part of Great Council State Park is protected by a Tecumseh Land Trust conservation easement.

Before we mow down our native prairie to stimulate new growth and conduct GPR and magnetometry research on the land, we need your help collecting seeds first!



Saturday, October 3rd, 10am–12pm, join us for a native prairie seed collection event. Every seed you gather will be saved, spread, and given a chance to take root, helping us restore and strengthen this prairie for next year and for generations to come.



This is hands-on conservation at its most direct: no experience needed, just a willingness to get outside and get your hands in the grass. We'll show you which plants to look for, how to collect seeds responsibly, and why this small act makes a big difference for native habitat.



📍 Great Council State Park

🕙 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

🌱 Free and family-friendly



Come be part of the prairie's next chapter!

09/10/2026

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09/04/2026

Get your tickets this weekend! Its going to be a great event with auction items you won't find anywhere else! Join us at the Kuss next Friday - buy your tickets today.

09/03/2026

There will be a lot to celebrate at the Partners for the Environment annual event. Join us for a great evening at Learning Tree Farm.

09/01/2026

And this is why we protect land in southwest Ohio!

That diagonal seam running from Cleveland down toward Cincinnati is the most important line in Ohio, and it explains almost everything about the state.

West of it is the Central Lowland, the Till Plains. Flat, deep-soiled, laid down when the glaciers came through and left hundreds of feet of ground-up rock and clay behind. That is why western Ohio is a grid of corn and soybeans and small towns spaced evenly apart. There is nothing to route around.

East of it is the Appalachian Plateau, which the ice never reached. Steep ridges, narrow hollows, sandstone cliffs, roads that follow creeks because there was no other option. That is coal country, iron furnace country, Hocking Hills, Wayne National Forest and the Ohio River towns.

Two completely different states sharing one border.

The colors add the other dimension, which is age. The rock gets older as you move west. Cincinnati sits on Ordovician, roughly 450 million years old, which is why that region is famous among fossil hunters. Southwest Ohio produces brachiopods, trilobites and crinoids by the bucket, and geology students come from everywhere to collect there.

Move east and the layers get progressively younger. Silurian, then Devonian through the middle, then Mississippian and Pennsylvanian in the southeast.

The Pennsylvanian layer is the one that mattered economically. That is where the coal is. Every mining town, every strip mine, every abandoned tipple in southeastern Ohio sits on that band, and the whole industrial history of Youngstown, Steubenville and the Hanging Rock furnaces traces back to it.

The Toledo corner is different again. The Eastern Lake section is old lakebed, which is what the Great Black Swamp formed on.

Salt under Lake Erie. Oil and gas in the shale. Limestone quarries in the west.

Everything Ohio built came out of what is under it.