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Dear Friends; The Pennsylvania state budget for the upcoming fiscal year has been finalized, and I am thrilled to share that Growing Greener III (referred […]

Amy Acq and her family live in Media, PA, in a well-established suburb just a few miles from Natural Lands’ Hildacy Preserve. This spring, she […]

“The bottom line is that humans have been manipulating the deer population—and by extension the ecosystem—for thousands of years,” said Tim Burris, Natural Lands’ wildlife management coordinator and preserve manager at Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary in Easton, PA. “Ironically, to keep from losing our forests, we are now compelled to continue the manipulation. A long-term controlled hunting program is the best tool at our disposal for doing that.”

Kestrels are North America’s smallest and most colorful falcons. Once a common sight in our region, they have declined more than 80 percent in the […]

Preston Wilson, preserve manager at our Paunacussing Preserve in Doylestown, Bucks County, has been working for the past decade to make the property a haven […]

Colleen Cranney says she’s spent so many years as an educator that her teacher skills kick in whenever she’s volunteering at Natural Lands. “At workdays, […]

Four years after Natural Lands embarked on protecting the 1,505-acre Bryn Coed Farms—then the largest remaining unprotected swath of land in the Philadelphia area—the final […]

“We have come a long way from our trash-picking days in the neighborhood,” said Gary Purfield, community service coordinator for the Chester County Juvenile Probation […]

It just got a little easier for guests of Stoneleigh: a natural garden to learn the native plant species that comprise the beautiful, biodiverse, and […]

An important part of Natural Lands’ mission is to connect people to the outdoors and to each other. Matt Suder and Robin McDaniel certainly found […]