Today the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) announced the donation of a conservation easement from a private landowner, Marjorie F. Green, on her 50-acre property in Homer Township, Potter County. With this donation, Green is ensuring that future land use and development on the property will be limited to protect wildlife habitat, water quality, and forests. Green read more
Conservation Projects
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February
The Nature Conservancy Receives DCNR Funds to Protect 500 Acres Along Kittatinny Ridge
The Pennsylvania Chapter of The Nature Conservancy has been awarded funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to assist with efforts to preserve forestlands along the Kittatinny Ridge. The awards, announced by Governor Tom Wolf and DCNR Secretary, Cindy Dunn, are part of a statewide initiative to create new recreational opportunities, read more
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February
WPC Protects Properties within the Headwaters of the Allegheny River
Two properties in Crawford County within one of the most ecologically diverse and significant areas in Western Pennsylvania, the French Creek watershed, were permanently protected in February, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) announced today. These newly acquired properties, which together total 265 acres, were among some of the remaining larger undeveloped read more
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February
Tinicum Conservancy implements Strategy to Extinguish Oil & Gas Leases
The Tinicum Conservancy is implementing a strategy to extinguish unwanted oil and gas leases on properties in Upper Bucks County—a first by a conservation organization in Pennsylvania. “I’m excited about this entirely new kind of conservation success. Although individuals have had some success extinguishing leases, this is the first comprehensive strategy put in place to read more
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January
Allegheny Land Trust Protects Two New Green Spaces
Allegheny Land Trust (ALT) closed on two projects at the end of 2015, starting 2016 with 194 additional acres in Franklin Park and Bell Acres Boroughs. The 168-acre Linbrook Woodlands in Franklin Park and 26-acre Hunt Road property in Bell Acres are now part of ALT’s more than 2,000 acres of protected green space in Allegheny and Washington Counties. The completion of these read more
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January
Linn Conservancy Buys Shikellamy Bluffs Parcel
The Merrill Linn Conservancy has purchased 36 acres of ecologically significant land on Shikellamy Bluffs adjacent to Shikellamy State Park. The property, previously owned by Richard and Miranda McGinnis of Lewisburg, was acquired as part of the Conservancy’s Linking Landscapes Initiative, which seeks to make connections between protected open spaces for the well-being of read more
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January
North Branch Land Trust: Grajewski Farm Conservation Project Completed
North Branch Land Trust (NBLT) has recently completed a conservation project in Huntington Mills, Luzerne County. The 210-acre Grajewski farm is a generational family farm dating back to 1917. The farm encompasses active agricultural fields, mixed deciduous forests, ponds, wetlands, and streams which feed a nationally registered wetland. Owned by Bob and Susan Grajewski, the read more
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January
Dow and Heritage Conservancy Collaborate to Preserve Croydon Woods in Bucks County
Heritage Conservancy and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) are collaborating to preserve Croydon Woods, located between Bristol and Croydon, Pennsylvania. As part of this collaboration, Heritage Conservancy acquires the 80-acre parcel of the land from Rohm and Haas Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow, which was transferred for preservation purposes and will remain read more
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January
Delaware Highlands Conservancy Purchases Long Eddy River Access Property
The Delaware Highlands Conservancy is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the riverfront parcel adjacent to the existing Long Eddy River Access in Long Eddy, New York. With a bridge grant from the Open Space Institute for a portion of the purchase, and donations from more than 100 individuals invested in the future of Long Eddy, the Conservancy was able read more
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December
Woodward Family Finalizes Easement to Natural Lands Trust
Natural Lands Trust, eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey’s oldest and largest conservation organization, today announced that on December 17 it completed the transaction granting a conservation easement on the St. Martin’s golf course property acquired by The Philadelphia Cricket Club (PCC). Initially announced in November by Quita Woodward Horan, George Woodward III, read more
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December
Mexico Road Property Now Protected
No, Northcentral PA Conservancy (NPC) is not greatly expanding its coverage area, this Mexico Road is in northcentral Pennsylvania’s Montour County. Chillisquaque Creek originates in the Muncy Hills on the Lycoming/Columbia County line, but for most of its length passes through Montour County before it finally flows into the Susquehanna River’s West Branch south of Milton. read more
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December
114-acre Farm Preserved in Warwick Township, Chester County
Natural Lands Trust announced recently the conservation of the Yoder Farm, a 114-acre property in Warwick Township, Chester County. The scenic farm forms the gateway vista into Warwick Township. The property lies in the upper reaches of French Creek near the western boundary of the Hopewell Big Woods, the largest unbroken forest remaining in southeastern Pennsylvania. In read more
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November
PA Conservation Heritage Documentaries On Abele, Dock, Pinchot
The mini-documentaries of Ralph Abele, Mira Lloyd Dock and Gifford Pinchot by WITF-TV and the Pennsylvania Conservation Heritage Project are now available for viewing online. Here are the links-- -- Straight Talk: The Ralph Abele Story: Ralph W. Abele’s “Resource First” philosophy helped protect and conserve the Commonwealth’s waterways and aquatic life. As longest serving read more
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November
Charles Woodward Family Makes Transformative Open Space Land Gift to Natural Lands Trust
Today, Quita Woodward Horan and George Woodward III and their family announced that they will be placing nearly forty acres of land in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood into a conservation easement with Natural Lands Trust to protect it from development in perpetuity. The Woodward family has owned this land since the late 1800s, and the read more
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November
Land Conservancy preserves 28-acre farm in Mount Joy Township
The Land Conservancy of Adams County recently partnered with Mount Joy Township residents Lee and Jean Bentz to preserve the couple’s 28-acre farm along Barlow-Two Taverns Road. The farm joins six other preserved properties within a mile radius in southern Cumberland and Mount Joy townships. “We’ve always been conservation-minded, and we’ve always lived on our own read more
