SEAS Events

Join fellow members of the SEAS community for an Alumni Master Chat with Glen Chown (BS '83, MS '86): "How Land Use, Conservation, and Placemaking Play a Key Role in Michigan's Economic Development"

About Glen Chown:

Glen is the founding Executive Director of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy in Northwest Michigan. In this position he oversees the Conservancy’s efforts to protect scenic, natural and farm lands in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Manistee Counties. Since the Conservancy’s founding in 1991 by Rotary Charities, nearly 47,000 acres of land and over 150 miles of shoreline along the region’s scenic rivers, lakes and streams have been forever protected.

Glen is a member of the Land Trust Alliance’s Leadership Council as well as a founding board member of Michigan’s Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy.

A Zoom link will be provided to registrants closer to the event date.