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Sarah A. Martin Nature Preserve

Also Sarah Martin Forest Preserve

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Sarah A. Martin Nature Preserve highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypePlace
Coordinates45.6800° N, 85.5756° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Sarah A. Martin Nature Preserve highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Place
Along road
Mrs Redding Trail
Coordinates
45.6800° N, 85.5756° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
conservationenvironmentrecreation
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Sarah A. Martin Nature Preserve is a Little Traverse Conservancy preserve identified in the 2023 Beaver Island Master Plan as a 106-acre working-forest reserve on Mrs. Redding’s Trail. The Conservancy’s Beaver Island preserves flyer lists the same preserve among its public nature preserves.

The OSM polygon supplies a current mapped representation and places the preserve along the Mrs. Redding Trail corridor. Neither the planning table nor the map establishes a deed, exact acreage today, legal boundary, or access easement.

Maps for this place

These Atlas plates provide regional context. They do not establish a precise boundary, current ownership, access right, operating status, or field condition.

  • EnvironmentSoils, wetlands, hydrography, and terrain
  • GeologyGeneralized geology and landforms
  • HydrologyMapped water and wetland context
  • AccessMapped routes, facilities, and protected areas
  • Land surveyPLSS geometry and historic GLO patent-location context

Sources

  1. Lists Sarah Martin Forest Preserve on Mrs. Redding’s Trail as a 106-acre Little Traverse Conservancy working-forest reserve with public access. The table does not provide a deed or surveyed boundary.
    planning · beaver_island_master_plan · 2023-beaver-island-master-plan-fe5d5c6b
  2. Lists Sarah A. Martin Nature Preserve among the Conservancy’s Beaver Island preserves. The flyer is a public-information map, not a title or boundary survey.
    maps · cited · landtrust.org · Beaver-Island-Regional-Flyer
  3. OSM way 995235174 is tagged as a nature-reserve polygon. Its current geometry overlaps the mapped Mrs Redding Trail corridor; that spatial relation does not establish a legal access easement.
    osm · protected_areas

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Sarah A. Martin Nature Preserve”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/sarah-a-martin-nature-preserve/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Master Plan (2023), protected-land inventory. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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