CHADDS FORD, PA – The North American Land Trust (NALT) today announced that it recently reached an agreement with the City Council of Naples, Florida, and The Athens Group to permanently protect 104.6 acres along Florida’s Gulf Coast for recreation and open space through a conservation easement. “We are happy to assist the City of […]
Stewardship is the act of caring for the protected land and the natural resources. It’s a mission that the entire NALT team takes very seriously. Last week, NALT Conservation Biologist Matt Stutzman visited the 2,400-acre Santa Susana conservation area located in Ventura County, California. In 2017, The Boeing Company permanently conserved the property, which supported
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Setting foot on Brinton Run Preserve, you can feel the historical significance of the land. You can imagine George Washington and his Continental Army fighting the Battle of Brandywine on its rolling hills, fields, and woods. You can hear the orders to retreat and visualize the American troops leaving the skirmish, hoping to regroup and
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Sightings of rare birds trumpet the conservation success story The majestic whooping crane is the tallest flying bird in North America. It stands five-feet tall and has a wingspan of seven feet. It lives for more than 30 years. And it has a distinctive trumpet “whooping” call to attract mates. By all accounts, it is
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NALT’s Brinton Run Preserve recently was featured in The Hunt, a magazine that celebrates the history, countryside and people of the Brandywine Valley. Melissa Jacobs writes about the amazing group of nonprofits and governmental agencies that partnered to purchase the 72-acre tract where the Battle of Brandywine was fought. It will be the first public
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As a kid, Steve DiSipio and his friends would play for hours and hours in the woods behind the DiSipio house. It was this time spent in nature that inspired a young Steve to pursue a career in conservation. “Growing up, I knew I wanted to do my part in preserving these local ecosystems,” he
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Brinton Run Preserve is normally a quiet sanctuary for plant and wildlife species, as well as a reverent site commemorating the Battle of Brandywine of the Revolutionary War. But for a few days this winter, the peaceful landscape bustled with the commotion of heavy equipment and construction workers. Demolition crews from TSI Home Improvements tore
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Picture an oak in your mind. What do you see? Do you imagine a large, tall tree in the middle of a field? Or do you picture a small, scrubby shrub on a sun-baked rock? Either way, you are right. Oaks come in all shapes and sizes. There are approximately 500 species – everything from
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A Philadelphia area magazine, Main Line Today, has featured NALT’s purchase and preservation of 72 acres of the historic Brandywine Battlefield, which NALT plans to turn into the public Brinton Run Preserve and open to the public. “The Brandywine Valley is our home, and this space is just three miles from our headquarters,” Steven Carter
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Wyatt Moyer recently joined our NALT team as a Stewardship Specialist. Along with our field biologists, Wyatt will monitor the land and wildlife protected by NALT across the United States using satellite technology and site visits. “It’s all about ensuring the land and resources are there for future generations,” he said. A graduate of Slippery
