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 Conserving
a Trail and Community
"Do you come down here a lot?"
"Every day, if my mom lets me," the young boy, perhaps eight, whispered, conscious of the grown-ups behind him, on the other side of the tree.
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The Spring Hills Farm Story
Margaret Hull stands strong and tall like the trees she takes for timber.
Her bronze arms are strung with muscle from daily farm labor. [more]
The Dark Wilderness
Eeeeekkk! What's that sound? I look around in the dark. My hard hat cracks
against the rocks above me, and my dim miner's light flickers across the
cave walls.
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Working Together for the Future
In the 1970s, when Tony Markunas bought a piece of Montandon Marsh, he didn't see the wetland. He didn't even know what a wetland really was.
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 Alive
and Well
The Dead Man's Hollow Wildlife Preserve-400 acres of protected forest and stream-provides peace and quiet to its visitors. Factories, strip malls, roads and traffic seem a world away. [more]
 The
Landis Farm Story
The Landis family farm in Lancaster County will remain open. No houses will ever sprout here; only crops, just like they have for more than 100 years. [more]
Melding Conservation and Development
When Denise and Greg Bayley sit in their backyard, they are surrounded with quiet and a 50-acre apple orchard. [more]
 On
spring days, the Tannersville Cranberry Bog belongs to fourth-graders. In
the bog they see their lessons come alive. They touch plants in the dense
foliage that they only knew from pictures and words. [more]
It's hard to call anyone in a township of 34 a trespasser.
That just wouldn't be polite.
Folks in rural Pottersdale took the freedom to roam in forests and streams for granted.
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Seek No Further Farm
Casper Kohler's reasons for keeping his 100-acre farm intact run deeper than money. So deep that he struggles to explain why he feels his land must never be developed. [more]
Greening Philadelphia
James Taylor wakes at 4 a.m., crosses his street of tidy row homes, and opens the gate to Glenwood Green Acres. Four acres of green purpose meet his pale gray eyes. [more]
The Moraine State Park Story
A convergence of glaciers 14,000 years ago gave Muddy Creek its hills and valleys. Industry gave it its scars.
A meeting of minds in the 1950s transformed the land yet again.
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Like Lancaster County's quilts, the Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve is a work of art comprised of many pieces. [more]
 For Mary Swann, the real country has more grit than a spaghetti western.
Moving out to the boonies in 1968 came with dirt, hard work and wide-open spaces. Living in the country meant doing without conveniences.
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One by one, the fields and farms of Ellen Lea's childhood are disappearing.
"When we were children, my mother would point out places and say, 'this
used to be a field and that one a farm..." [more]
 Buying
It Piece by Piece
No artist could have painted a bluer sky or poofier clouds the day Carol Witzemen stood on Blue Mountain.
Under that perfect sky, the Witmer estate was being sold.
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 Fieldstone buildings grace the rolling farmland of Worcester Township, Montgomery County. Two hundred year old white stucco farmhouses line winding roads, shaded by towering oaks.
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 History,
Community Values and Development Collide
Near the very banks where George Washington launched his nation-defining attack, an 80,000-square-foot shopping plaza was planned. [more] |
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