Seno – Preserved for posterity

Preserved for posterity

Seno Conservancy offers natural respite, educational programs

by Sandra Landen Machaj

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It is the beauty of nature – the green grasses, multi-colored flowers, the beautiful canopy of trees, and the unique wildlife that brings many outdoors.

Away from the hustle and bustle of developed lands we often seek refuge in the open lands when possible. Who doesn’t enjoy a day hiking through forests, breathing in the fresh air and enjoying the beauty of nature and especially the magnificent canopies of the trees towering overhead?

The Seno K/RLT Conservancy, on Highway P south of Burlington, is a nonprofit land conservation agency that serves both Kenosha and Racine counties to protect land in its natural state for the benefit of people and nature. They do this by protecting land in perpetuity from development.

“In addition to protecting the land from development, the Seno K/RLT Conservancy also produces a variety of outreach programs many of them with the Kenosha Parks Alliance and Southport Park,” said Stacy Santiago, Executive Director of Seno K/RLT Conservancy.

Before it became the conservancy, Dr. Elvira Seno established a tree farm on her late 1880s farmstead of 127 acres. She wanted the land to be maintained as accessible and used for an education center

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top: The Tamarack Marsh at Seno Woodland Management Center. left: Emmaus Neighborhood Camp students inspect fresh water critters during a Discovering Nature outreach program.