Ayers
Noxen Township • 123 Acres
Dr. Doug Ayers, founding member of the North Branch Land Trust, preserved his 123-acre Noxen Township farm. This easement is comprised of pasture, hayfields, woodlands, hardwood forest, and wetlands — with a spectacular view of the Endless Mountains in Wyoming County. The farm is adjacent to PA State Game Lands 57 and 13. A pristine Class 1 stream courses through the property and drains into Bowman’s Creek. A nomination for the house and barn, built just after the Civil War, will be submitted to the National Historic Register.
Davies
Mehoopany Township • 38 Acres
This 38-acre property of hemlock and hardwood forests runs for nearly one-half mile along Mehoopany Creek in a little valley of the Endless Mountains in Mehoopany Township, Wyoming County. The bluff along the stream rises nearly 100 feet and is covered with moss, fern and lush vegetation. The property is now a protected riparian buffer. In the 1950’s, Dr. Carlton Davies and his family built the log cabin by hand from logs he felled from the property and pulled down from the mountain-side on their land. Dr. Davies wife, Betty, and daughter, Diane, together have protected forests, floodplains, stream view-sheds, wildlife habitat and gorgeous scenic views of cliffs and bluffs. Diane is an internationally recognized environmental educator.
Harris-Case
Northmoreland Township • 34 Acres
This unique 34-acre property located in Northmoreland Township, Wyoming County, is currently owned by Graysha Harris and Leon Case. The property is a combination of farm fields, deciduous forest, conifer and hardwood plantations, hedge rows, pond and wetlands. Wildlife diversity is prevalent throughout the property. The wetland and pond area alone hosts 28 species of dragonflies.
Kulow
Mehoopany Township • 89 Acres
This scenic 89 acre property located in Mehoopany Township, Wyoming County is currently owned by Robert and Nancy Kulow. The property of field and forest is specifically managed for wildlife. The fields provide breeding habitat for the rare Henslow’s Sparrow and is the only known breeding population in NE Pennsylvania of this species.
Camp Lackawanna
Washington Township • 281 Acres
A short time after North Branch Land Trust learned that it had been left Riverside Farm by the late Ernest E. Howland, Camp Lackawanna leaders, neighboring landowners, approached the Land Trust about the possibility of seeking grant support to purchase a conservation easement on their property.
The Camp, located on the Vosburg Neck in Washington Township, Wyoming County, is contiguous to the Howland property and leaders of both organizations saw an unusual opportunity to collaborate for conservation purposes. The Land Trust worked with camp administrators to acquire funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
DCNR announced a grant of $265,000 in Spring 2006; one year later, Camp Lackawanna conserved 281 acres along the Susquehanna River. The grant represented half the value of the easement, and the landowner, the Presbytery of Lackawanna, donated the value of the other half to complete the transaction. Together, the Camp and the Land Trust have conserved more than 900 acres on the Vosburg Neck, Wyoming County, including almost four miles of riverfront.
The Camp and the Land Trust are resolved to work together on the conservation values of the Vosburg Neck whenever practicable.
