News: Habitat Efforts

By Molly Bilinski maple tract For the first time in nearly a century, Wildlands Conservancy has brought fire back to Maple Tract Preserve.  Wildlands last fall held a prescribed burn on a little over 30-acre portion of the remnant mesic till barrens, an ultra-rare ecosystem within the preserve that’s home to several species of trees […]

Photos by Steve Miller Each summer, Wildlands welcomes curious and aspiring college students to join Stewardship Crew, an immersive professional development program designed to blaze career paths in conservation. It takes classroom learning outside to help students gain hands-on experience sustaining and enhancing our 14 nature preserves—for people and nature. Wildlands has 33+ miles of […]

So, you want to know more about the wily red fox who calls South Mountain home? While the red fox is considered common in our neck of the woods, there’s a world of lesser-known facts that make this creature both curious and fascinating. Read on for 15 wild fox facts that might amaze you! Photos […]

You never know what fascinating fungi you’ll find at Wildlands Conservancy’s 14 nature preserves, whether it’s a first for science or a first for your very own eyes.  Just ask Lehigh University alum, ’24, Will Yaeger. His little-white-mushroom find turned out to be a big discovery. Last August, during one of his regular outings at South Mountain Preserve, Yaeger, a mycology enthusiast […]