LandChoices: Opportunities for Landowners to Preserve Their Land

Land Choices: Changing Development in America

History
Advisory Group
Board of Directors

You can help preserve the lands you cherish.

The History of Land Choices
"Growing up, I remember walking the beautiful rolling farm fields and forests across from our home in Orchard Lake, Michigan with our German Shepherd, Edee. Pheasants cackled and flushed over the hedgerows. I came home from college one weekend and was heartbroken to see this land clear-cut and scraped flat for a new subdivision, 'The Woods of Orchard Lake'.

I founded LandChoices to:
1. Reach out to landowners to help them preserve land.
2. Protect land slated for subdivision development by providing landowners and planners with an effective and profitable solution - conservation subdivision design.

The land around this lake in a subdivision in southeast Michigan is preserved. A hiking trail loops around the lake, complete with delightful wooded areas from which to launch a canoe. Why aren't more subdivisions designed this way? With your help, LandChoices is working to take designs like this mainstream.
Photo courtesy Randall Arendt.

"I attended workshops by by Boston Tax Attorney Steve Small on preserving family lands, and by noted planner Randall Arendt on conservation subdivisions. After hearing these solutions I created LandChoices to reach landowners and planners to save your favorite lands."
Kirt Manecke, LandChoices' Founder and President

"There are excellent land conservation options for landowners, but the message isn't getting out fast enough. Through LandChoices I plan to spread the word and help protect our special lands and wildlife."

LandChoices' Founder and President, Kirt Manecke

LandChoices was started by Kirt Manecke. Previously, Manecke served as the Executive Director and Director of Development for a northern Michigan land trust. Manecke's business experience includes developing an award-winning successful start-up business, new business development in the software industry, and technical sales for a leading Minnesota manufacturer. Currently Manecke works as a publicist for New York Times best-selling author Carl R. Sams II.