KAPA to preserve old growth trees in Anson B. Nixon Park
In line with Chester County’s Climate Action Plan, the Kennett Area Park Authority (KAPA) will be preserving approximately 15 old growth ash trees and replanting 125 native species in the current ash grove adjacent to the disc golf course and the main vehicular entrance of Anson B. Nixon Park.
Efforts are necessary now because approximately 200 dead, diseased, and declining ash trees in this...
Inner Nature: Rock honeybee encounter in Chennai, India
By Vidya Rajan, Columnist, The Times
I am currently in India. My father lives in Chennai, a city on the southeast Bay of Bengal coast, in a flat (apartment) in a tower block. Recently a swarm of honeybees showed up and settled on a large waterpipe that ran above a public stairwell. Anxious that passersby would get stung, a decision was made by the maintenance crew to call in pest control. A previous...
Natural Lands announces preservation of 15 acres in Franklin
Natural Lands announced last week the permanent preservation of a 15-acre property in Franklin Township, Chester County. In addition to preserving scenic views, forests, and meadows, the conservation easement ensures protection for more than 600 feet of a tributary to East Branch White Clay Creek.
Water from this unnamed tributary eventually makes its way into the State of Delaware and serves as a...
County granted $3.74 million for farm preservation
At its recent meeting, the Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board awarded Chester County the highest level of funding, $3.74 million, to preserve nearly 150 more acres of farmland on two Chester County farms. The state board announced an overall spending threshold of $38 million for the purchase of development rights from 38 farm owners state-wide – the highest spending total in over...
Chester County celebrates preservation of 500th farm
: Chester County Commissioners visit 500th preserved farm. From left to right: Commissioner Terence Farrell; Commissioner Michelle Kichline; farm owner Gerald Rohrer; Commissioner Kathi Cozzone; and Cindy Rohrer.
Chester County signed contracts on the preservation of its 500th farm this week, bringing the total number of farm acres preserved in the county to just under 40,000. In total, more than...
E. Bradford completes 2nd phase of Strode’s Mill preservation
A recent image of Strode’s Mill. Courtesy, East Bradford Township.
EAST BRADFORD —The township, with support from the Friends of Strode’s Mill, has recently completed the second phase of a multi-year effort to preserve and restore the historic Strode’s Barn, a contributing resource to the Strode’s Mill National Register Listed Historic District, located at the intersection of Lenape and...
Pocopson officials look to protect parklands
Supervisors investigating whether conservation easements can be placed on township properties to preserve them as open space
By Kelli Siehl, Correspondent, UnionvilleTimes.com
Pocopson Township officials are looking into ways to permanantly protect township-owned properties such as Pocopson Park.
POCOPSON — All who have visited Pocopson Park know of its value to the community. Residents and visitors...
