Climate Change
Michigan and Leelanau County are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, and they are expected to worsen in the next several decades.
Food Security
Over 20% of northern Michigan families experience food insecurity or a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
Septic System Health
We have no septic ordinance in the county and thus we have at least 14,000 unregulated septic systems. In the absence of such an ordinance, villages and townships must move to protect groundwater.
Pipe Line 5
Line 5 threatens the drinking water supply for 5 million Michigan residents, the Pure Michigan tourist economy, and a way of life.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that the land of Leelanau County is land ceded in the treaty of 1855, whose ancestral land of the Anishinabek, known as the three fires confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi, and recognized by the colonial government as the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. We give thanks to the Anishinabeg as the caretakers of mother earth and their relationship to the land; we acknowledge we are nothing without aki (mother-earth), newsin (air), nibi (water), gitigaadan (plants) and wesiinyag (animals).