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Conservation of Waterford Lands About Us We are a collection of residents of Waterford Township Michigan who were made aware in 2020 that former state park land in our township was being sold for income by the Road Commission for Oakland County to a private developer as a residential development. Being part of a treasured greenway outside the popular park entrance and part of a memorial highway for our young lost soldiers in Iraq as well as having been reassured by a former county commissioner that there were no plans to develop the land we grew concerned that our township had no protections at all to keep permanent developments from completely covering our township as has been done in other Metro Detroit municipalities. Our fledgling advocacy didn39t succeed in preserving this lot despite securing some natural land in the site plan but we organized COWL to bring more tools to the cause. We have a few remaining parcels of wild land serving as a proper refuge for our wild birds animals plants and pollinators and we39d like to help protect and expand them in the public interest and to make them accessible for their physical and mental health benefits to our considerable population.