Sustainable Site Planning

The land surrounding your camp is equally as important to make sustainable as your built structures. Here is a brief rundown of how you can strive to make your site healthier for your guests and for the environment.

Building Placement:

-Orient Buildings to take advantage of solar, natural light, ventilation and shading

-Reduce site disturbance: build in already disturbed areas

-Design with topography

-Maintain natural flow of water on site

-Reduce soil erosion

Maintain/Improve Water Quality:

-Manage Stormwater

-Utilize Low Impact Design Practices (LID)- Rain Gardens, Bioswales and Permeable Pavement

-Windmills for aeration- This system drives air into two aerators at the bottom of the pond to improve the level of oxygen quality of the water

Water Conservation:

Capture and re-use as much water as possible by utilizing using cisterns, rain barrels, etc.

Vegetation:

-Use for shading and wind blocks

-Utilize green roofs for rainwater absorption

-Utilize native and low maintenance plants

-Removal of invasive species using a controlled burn for habitat restoration

-Removal of invasive species along lake edge

-Consider reducing lawn areas with native plantings In areas where appropriate- mow buffers along pathways and road edges only

Lighting:

Use full cut-off light fixtures to reduce light pollution

Land Conservation:

Conservation Easements

    -Income Tax Savings

    -Transition & Estate Planning

    -Acquisition

    -Raise Capital

    -Disposition