Join Heritage Conservancy, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, and the Silver Lake Nature Center for an educator workshop. Become a Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) Ambassador by completing the online MWEE 101 course and this in-person workshop. Learn how to use the MWEE framework to support environmental literacy across subject areas with your students. Location: […]
DelVal One Health Seminar: “Composing with Time and Space, Boldly Going into New Ways of Making Music (Without involving Star Trek)”
Join us on Tuesday, October 3rd at 6:00 PM for a virtual lecture hosted by Delaware Valley University and co-sponsored by Heritage Conservancy! This event is part of DelVal’s Fall 2023 One Health seminar series. Join us for this lecture from Pete Wyer of iForest, titled Composing with Time and Space, Boldly Going into New […]
CANCELED – River Days Cleanup
Join Heritage Conservancy and partners TNC and DCNR to help keep this important freshwater tidal marsh clean in honor of National Public Lands Day. Volunteers can join crews removing trash from the marsh banks and trails. The more trash we collect, the less trash will get washed into our waterways! Volunteers must pre-register below and […]
A wonderful ‘full circle’ feeling: A new land conservation easement preserves over 55 acres in Upper Bucks County
This month Heritage Conservancy has completed the preservation of a 55.6 acre property in Richland Township in Upper Bucks County. The Corn Property is adjacent to Heritage Conservancy’s 70-acre Quakertown Swamp Preserve, which is a DCNR-designated Native Plant Sanctuary. With its rare and endangered plant species, this property adds to the sanctuary. It also provides […]
Heritage Conservancy installs a Motus wildlife tracking tower in Lower Bucks County
At the very end of August, Heritage Conservancy completed installation of a new Motus wildlife tracking station atop Keystone Elementary School, next to its Croydon Woods Nature Preserve in Croydon. The project will provide the global science community with critical information on local wildlife migration. “We are feeding data to scientists around the world,” says […]
BioBlitz Results Released in New Documentary
Photo by Kara Foran. This past spring, Heritage Conservancy hosted a BioBlitz event at our Croydon Woods Nature Preserve. This 24-hour biological survey was a huge success as staff, biologists, and community scientists identified hundreds of species that utilize the preserve. To conduct the surveys, professionals and community scientists used multiple traps and visual encounter […]
‘Places for Pollinators’ Class Series: Quakertown Swamp
‘Places for Pollinators’ Class Series Saturday, September 9th at Heritage Conservancy’s Quakertown Swamp Preserve Meadows get the most attention when people think of pollinator conservation, but our native pollinators aren’t just contained to meadows. Take a walk with Conservation Easement Steward Sebastian Harris through Quakertown Swamp to expand your knowledge of the diversity of pollinators […]
An “Accidental Meaningful Watershed Education Experience” with Heritage Conservancy’s Community Education Outreach
At Heritage Conservancy, we work to inspire the next generation to respect nature and care for their surroundings. When it comes to conservation and environmental education, we like to start outreach early! So we were heartened to hear from leaders at No Longer Bound, a community nonprofit that serves the community around Bristol — young […]
‘Places for Pollinators’ Class Series: Jackson Pond to Russell-Mandel
‘Places for Pollinators’ Class Series Thursday, August 24th | 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM at Heritage Conservancy’s Jackson Pond and Russell-Mandel Preserves If you’ve ever thought about starting your own pollinator meadow, join Conservation Steward Tyler Kovacs as he walks through Heritage Conservancy’s process for establishing native meadows. Starting at the thriving meadow in its […]
Fridays in the Forest Workday: Fuller-Pursell Preserve
Project: Due to the loss of the ash tree as a functional member of the forest, large gaps have been created in the canopy; due to the severe deer pressure and quick spread of invasive species, native seedlings need our protection. Join us at our Fuller-Pursell Preserve as we seek native, naturally-regenerating seedlings to either […]