News: Nature Preserves
Wildlands Conservancy Celebrates Grand Opening of New, ADA-Accessible Boardwalk at Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary in Emmaus
The newly restored, ADA-compliant boardwalk aims to enhance accessibility and the overall nature preserve visitor experience while promoting environmental education and conservation. With the overarching goal of connecting more people with nature, the project involved completely renovating the boardwalk to have ADA-compliant features, extending the trail through a paved pathway to a new parking area, […]
Native Wildflower Meadow: Educating Young Minds & Regenerating Biodiversity
South Mountain Preserve is literally seeding new ideas and educating a tomorrow for our special part of the planet. Wildlands’ preserve managers are underway with establishing a 3.3-acre native wildflower meadow in the northwest area of South Mountain Preserve, near the Wilderness Trail. Not only will the wildflower meadow provide sustenance to native pollinators and a home for wildlife, but […]
LCTI Partnership Brings Repairs & Renovations
A Win-Win for Accessible Nature & Real-World Learning Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary received some much-needed repairs and renovations this spring thanks to a partnership with Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. You may have heard the sound of power tools at the preserve alongside the playful calls of black-capped chickadees and song sparrows. “The nice part […]
Wildlands Conservancy Protects 38 acres, Expands South Mountain Preserve
Wildlands announced today the permanent protection of approximately 38 acres situated in Salisbury and Upper Saucon Townships, Lehigh County that will expand the organization’s 400+-acre South Mountain Preserve. “At a time when the Lehigh Valley is losing open space at the alarming rate of 2,000 acres a year, we need to protect all we can, […]