Geiselman Island and Woodlands
Perhaps our most environmentally significant preserve, Geiselman Island is three acres surrounded by nine acres of superb wetland, as shown with aerial photography provided by Warren Webb. The age of trees on the island suggests this might be a rare remnant of relatively undisturbed property, illustrating what some Long Lake shoreline may have been in the days of
pre-European settlement.
pre-European settlement.
Geiselman Island and Woodlands is a three acre island on Long Lake in Liberty Township and nine surrounding acres of wetlands that are protected as a nature preserve through Woodland Savanna Land Conservancy.
The land was donated to the Conservancy by Dr. Tom and Marilyn Geiselman of Asheville, North Carolina. The property was originally settled by Dr. Geiselman's grandparents in the 1890s.
The land was donated to the Conservancy by Dr. Tom and Marilyn Geiselman of Asheville, North Carolina. The property was originally settled by Dr. Geiselman's grandparents in the 1890s.
