To protect and conserve natural areas to enrich and engage current and future generations.
Protecting these few remaining natural areas provides places where everyone has the opportunity to learn about and enjoy native habitats and where diverse flora and fauna have a chance to persist.
Bur Oak Land Trust is a land trust that accepts donations of land from residents and landowners who want their natural areas to be in the public trust, available for present and future generations.
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Big Grove Preserve, with the addition of the newly acquired Big Grove Addition, is an eighty-acre woodland adjacent to the Coralville Reservoir off Sugar Bottom Road, which makes up part of the original “Big Grove” noted by the first settlers to describe Johnson County’s landscape. The property has a network of hiking trails.
The Big Grove was acquired in 2004 from Dick Schwab and Will Weibel, developers of the adjacent Natural Woodlands residential area. The Big Grove Addition was acquired in conjunction with our Protect. Conserve. Grow. the Campaign to Save the Grove capital campaign held 2016-17.
