The Trails at SVSU

The Trails at SVSU provides multiple benefits, including fitness and exercise opportunities for students, faculty, staff and regional residents, as well as a NCAA certified cross country course. The Trails transform unused, undeveloped property on the university’s campus into a regional recreational open space, and additionally complement the existing asphalt trails that circle the SVSU campus, as well as the other recognizable high quality campus athletic facilities at the university. 

Janet H. Nash Preserve

This approximately 3-acre site, located on the west riverbank on the south side of Genesee along Niagara, provides a clear, strong human-scale point of access to the River while providing a variety of other amenities. It includes interpretive signage, a section of paved trail to expand the City of Saginaw’s Riverfront Trail system, and thousands of beautiful native plants. 

Pollinator Plots

This project turns vacant lots on five initial sites throughout the City of Saginaw into productive, aesthetically desirable natural spaces that reduce the burden of local government for maintenance and improve the visual condition of neighborhoods throughout the City of Saginaw. By replacing weeds and overgrown grasses on vacant lots with beneficial, aesthetically desirable, hearty, drought tolerant and wildlife-beneficial native wildflowers and prairie grasses, the project will reduce maintenance demands overall, form neighborhood partnerships, create beneficial acreage for wildlife, and inform future widespread solutions for vacant land stabilization in the community. 

Zoo Trails

This project took the 16 acres of vacant land adjacent to the Children's Zoo at Celebration Square and converted it into an interpretive nature trail with accompanying signage geared towards families and children describing the natural features present on and relevant to the existing conditions. 
The control and removal of invasive species identified on the property will further enhance the property’s conservation values and make way for the future establishment of greater native plant density and diversity. The improved area  contains the nature trail, and family-friendly interpretive signage detailing the site’s existing natural features.