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Re: GREEN LANE, Montgomery County Camp
Camp Green Lane 1920
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Recent article on Fernbrook...
Norco gets $340,000 grant to help preserve open space
Laura Catalano, Special to The Mercury
11/12/2005
NORTH COVENTRY -- Township supervisors are working to preserve a 103-acre tract of open space known as Coventry Woods.
The township was recently awarded a $340,000 grant from Chester County to help pay for the purchase of the land. The grant is one of the largest awarded by the county for open space, according to Supervisor Andrew Paravis.
Supervisors have also applied for $426,000 in additional funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The township will then pay only 10 percent, or $85,000, of the total $850,000 for the land. That money is available in the open space fund.
The township has an agreement of sale for the property, which is currently part of Camp Nueva Esperanza, a privately owned summer camp and retreat center located off St. Peters Road.
The acreage connects to Coventry Woods, the township’s Wilderness Area designation, and will expand that area of preserved woodlands from 140 to 243 acres.
"That’s a lot of contiguous parkland," observed Paravis.
Coventry Woods is part of a larger undeveloped swath of woodlands, known as the Hopewell Big Woods, which totals 73,000 acres in Chester and Berks counties, making it the largest area of undisturbed woodlands in southeastern Pennsylvania.
About 10,000 acres of the Big Woods have already been preserved as part of the Hopewell Furnace site, French Creek State Park, and the state game lands. Efforts are under way to preserve more.
The Big Woods is part of Pennsylvania’s Highlands. The Highlands stretches from Maryland to Connecticut and is what remains of the woodlands that once covered the entire eastern seaboard.
Township supervisors decided they wanted to purchase the 103 acres after being approached by Nueva Esperanza owners, who offered to sell the township the property.
Supervisors worked with planners from Natural Lands Trust to forge an agreement for the sale, which is expected to be settled in June 2006.
"We decided we would try to get a grant for it because it was an important part of North Coventry and we wanted to preserve it as open space," said Paravis. "It could have been sold for a housing development."
The land will remain as undisturbed woodlands, although walking trails will likely be constructed through it.
Coventry Woods is now accessible only from Chestnut Hill Road. The land under purchase agreement will make it accessible from Hill Camp Road, as well.
"This will give us a link between those two roads," Township Manager Kevin Hennessey said.
That will make it feasible to eventually construct a trail that stretches from one road to the other.
"It’s good to see money going to preserve a forest," said Paravis, who noted that open space funding more commonly is used to preserve farmland.
Camp Nueva Esperanza -- the former Camp Fernbrook -- will continue to operate as a camp on a 40-acre parcel that it will retain
Norco gets $340,000 grant to help preserve open space
Laura Catalano, Special to The Mercury
11/12/2005
NORTH COVENTRY -- Township supervisors are working to preserve a 103-acre tract of open space known as Coventry Woods.
The township was recently awarded a $340,000 grant from Chester County to help pay for the purchase of the land. The grant is one of the largest awarded by the county for open space, according to Supervisor Andrew Paravis.
Supervisors have also applied for $426,000 in additional funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The township will then pay only 10 percent, or $85,000, of the total $850,000 for the land. That money is available in the open space fund.
The township has an agreement of sale for the property, which is currently part of Camp Nueva Esperanza, a privately owned summer camp and retreat center located off St. Peters Road.
The acreage connects to Coventry Woods, the township’s Wilderness Area designation, and will expand that area of preserved woodlands from 140 to 243 acres.
"That’s a lot of contiguous parkland," observed Paravis.
Coventry Woods is part of a larger undeveloped swath of woodlands, known as the Hopewell Big Woods, which totals 73,000 acres in Chester and Berks counties, making it the largest area of undisturbed woodlands in southeastern Pennsylvania.
About 10,000 acres of the Big Woods have already been preserved as part of the Hopewell Furnace site, French Creek State Park, and the state game lands. Efforts are under way to preserve more.
The Big Woods is part of Pennsylvania’s Highlands. The Highlands stretches from Maryland to Connecticut and is what remains of the woodlands that once covered the entire eastern seaboard.
Township supervisors decided they wanted to purchase the 103 acres after being approached by Nueva Esperanza owners, who offered to sell the township the property.
Supervisors worked with planners from Natural Lands Trust to forge an agreement for the sale, which is expected to be settled in June 2006.
"We decided we would try to get a grant for it because it was an important part of North Coventry and we wanted to preserve it as open space," said Paravis. "It could have been sold for a housing development."
The land will remain as undisturbed woodlands, although walking trails will likely be constructed through it.
Coventry Woods is now accessible only from Chestnut Hill Road. The land under purchase agreement will make it accessible from Hill Camp Road, as well.
"This will give us a link between those two roads," Township Manager Kevin Hennessey said.
That will make it feasible to eventually construct a trail that stretches from one road to the other.
"It’s good to see money going to preserve a forest," said Paravis, who noted that open space funding more commonly is used to preserve farmland.
Camp Nueva Esperanza -- the former Camp Fernbrook -- will continue to operate as a camp on a 40-acre parcel that it will retain
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I think this was Camp Green Lane....
Camp Green Lane
1000 W Germantown Pike
Norristown, PA
(610) 270-1700
Camp Green Lane
1000 W Germantown Pike
Norristown, PA
(610) 270-1700
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