Since Bushkill Township’s award-winning Open Space Program began in 2005 it has preserved close to 2,000 acres. The program preserves land through Conservation Easements and Fee Simple purchase. Over the years, four …Read More

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, like many sites along the 185-mile-long Kittatinny Ridge, considers the continued threat of non-native vegetation its top forest stewardship challenge. Its award-winning stewardship staff see the signs annually, having …Read More

On November 8, 2022, voters in Carbon County, PA overwhelmingly approved a $10 million bond issue—the Carbon County Water, Farms, and Land referendum—to support farmland preservation and natural lands conservation. Eighty-two percent …Read More

Cruising along the rugged, snowy slopes of the Kittatinny Ridge, Gilson snowboards feel right at home. Perhaps that is because they are handcrafted from the timber of local Pennsylvania hardwoods. Or perhaps …Read More

When the New Jersey Zinc Company in Palmerton, PA finally closed in 1980, it left behind a barren mountain of polluted land. Eighty years of zinc smelting had propelled metallic contaminants in …Read More

Since the 1990s the Kittatinny Ridge has been recognized as one of the preeminent corridors for North American raptor migration, concentrating more birds than any other corridor in eastern North America, excepting …Read More