Wildlands Conservancy

Conservation: Wildlands Conservancy's conservation strategies include land planning and acquisition, stream restoration and habitat stewardship activities. Wildlands acquired 4.09 acres in lower macungie township, lehigh county to expand brenner-penfield macungie mountain preserve. In the stewardship realm, Wildlands forwarded efforts focused on stream restoration, habitat restoration and watershed planning: completed stream restoration projects in urban parks at the following locations: " east allen township" emmaus boro" north whitehall " city of easton " palmer township" tatamy boro" williams township" lehigh townshipcompleted grassland habitat restoration projects at the following locations: " trexler nature preserve" gall farm" wayne grube park" louise moore park" fry's run parkcontinued to lead the lehigh valley riparian buffer initiative.continued water quality monitoring in the upper lehigh river watershed for the ongoing, large-scale Delaware river watershed initiative. Completed public access enhancements at thomas darling preserve. Continued restoration of rare habitat at thomas darling and maple tract preserves.continued stewardship management of lehigh county's 1,800-acre trexler nature preserve.

Education: 9,888 students in kindergarten through grade 12 benefited from Wildlands' environmental education programs that are tied to Pennsylvania's standards for environment and ecology, participating in 255 school porgrams. More than 610 community education programs connected more than 15,000 community members with local, natural areas, including dorothy rider pool wildlife sanctuary, south mountain preserve, trexler nature preserve, the lehigh river and destinations in carbon and monroe counties.held a six-program series in collaboration with the autism society called "fun in nature for kids with autism"held 23 weeks of summer camp for nearly 900 summer campers.