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Check out SMLC’s 2023 annual newsletter.  Be sure to read Victoria Escobedo’s reminisces about growing up on Power’s Park.

SMLC recently provided comments on South Suburban’s Draft Master Plan.  Our letter to SSPR can be seen here. Dear Ms. Pye: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Draft South Suburban Parks and Recreation 2022 Master Plan. South Metro Land Conservancy (SMLC) is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1993 and is…

South Metro Land Conservancy posed 4 questions to all six South Suburban Parks and Recreation candidates and received responses from five of them.  These responses appear below unedited, exactly as they were received.  SMLC is extremely appreciative of the time the candidates took to address these questions and we thank them!  For more information about…

Part of SMLC’s mission is to improve connectivity in the south metro area.  We are pleased to partner with the City of Littleton as it undertakes a Linkages Trail Study to assess the local trail network.  You can learn more about this effort and take the City’s survey here: https://www.littletonco.gov/Government/Departments/Public-Works-Engineering/Public-Works-Projects/Littleton-Linkages-Trail-Study

On a beautiful October afternoon in S. Platte Park, SMLC President, Pat Cronenberger, presents retired board member, Linda Knufinke, with the SMLC Eagle Award.  Thank you, Linda, for your years of service to SMLC!

SMLC enjoyed participating with the City of Littleton’s “Meet, Greet and Eats” throughout the summer.  Here we are at Berry Park in August.  Once again, the South Platte Park rangers and their nature van and the live aquatic animals were a big hit.   Brother and sister, Harry and Ruth, enjoyed hanging out at our table…

SMLC, in partnership with the City of Littleton, held a neighborhood gathering at Powers Park on July 27th to show neighbors the Powers Park drawings and answer questions.  Neighbors also got a chance to fill out an application for a free tree.  The City applied for a grant to purchase trees for the northeast neighborhoods as…

South Suburban Parks and Recreation is updating its Master Plan.  Be sure to weigh in by taking the survey. You can access it by going to https://www.ssprd.org/ SMLC also invites you to read the comment letter that we sent to SSPR regarding the Master Plan update. You can find it below.

SMLC’s annual newsletter is out!  It’s been a great year and we are busy with new projects that will benefit our local environment, create better parks, connect kids to nature and serve our community. Please take a moment to read it.

It was a great time at the City of Littleton’s “Meet Greet and Eats at Ketring Park”.  Here are the South Platte Park Naturalists with their Nature Van.  They also brought crawdads for everyone to get up close with!