By Doug & Pat Meredith
Our family’s love affair with this area began in the early 1900s and is now into its fourth generation. In 1998, we retired and became permanent residents of Lake Galilee, near Caroline Lake in Ashland County. Two years earlier, the Georgia-Pacific Corporation had put its land holdings around Caroline Lake, adjacent to our family’s land, up for sale. It was a pristine, basically untouched area where we had hiked, skied, hunted small game and deer, and just enjoyed for years. The rumor was that when sold, it would be divided into lots and areas would be clear cut. We pooled our money and put in a bid to buy the land, but much to our disappointment, our bid was turned down. As they say, every cloud has a silver lining—we
learned that the land had been purchased by The Nature Conservancy.
Because of the good land stewardship of The Nature Conservancy,
this beautiful area will remain untouched and as pristine as it
was meant to be for generations to come.
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