Almost four miles of Lake Huron shoreline will be preserved thanks to a $1 million grant being announced Thursday by the Nature Conservancy.
Its Michigan chapter is receiving money from three foundations to buy 134 acres near Dudley Bay in the Les Cheneaux area of the eastern Upper Peninsula.
Dow Chemical Company Foundation is providing $525,000, the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation is chipping in $275,000 and the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation another $200,000, according to the Nature Conservancy.
Gerstacker, a former board chairman and director of Dow Chemical Co., was dedicated to conservation until his death last year. He was a founding member of the Nature Conservancy board.
The preserve will take in hundreds of acres of forest and an inland lake, Little Trout Lake, as well as the shoreline.
