Conservancy buys bog in Susquehanna County
THOMPSON One of the few
balsam fir bogs left in Penn
sylvania has been purchased by
The Nature Conservancy, which
has raised more than $24,000 of the
$41,000 needed to acquire and
manage an area known as Krall’s
Bog, in Susquehanna County.
The Conservancy is currently
attempting to raise the balance of
$17,000.
The Bog was purchased as a 72-
acre addition to The Nature
Conservancy’s newest sanctuary
in Pennsylvania, the Thompson
Wetlands Preserve.
Initial funding was provided by
members of The Nature Con
servancy’s Eastern Pennsylvania
Chapter plus an $BOOO grant from
the McLean Contnbutionship of
Philadelphia,
According to Bud Cook, „ the
Chapter’s Executive Director,
“The McLean Contnbutionship’s
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The farmer is a mighty enterprising citizen. He's a Jack-of-all
trades and master at ail of them! From dawn until dusk he’s
busy working as an engineer, a bookkeeper, a mechanic, a
specialist in feed, soil, chemicals and animal husbandry. Thanks
to his efforts, America is proud to enjoy the highest standard of
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gift was the key factor in making
the project move from an idea to a
reality. The end result will be the
permanent protection of a pristine
wetland system of a type thi., has
practically vanished from Penn
sylvania’s landscape.
“Krall’s Bog is a vital addition to
Thompson Wetlands Preserve,
which is a 160-acre pond/bog
complex donated to The Nature
Conservancy by Dr and Mrs.
Robert Shelly, of Thompson.”
Cook added that the preserve
will be used for scientific research
and public education after the
adoption of a master plan for the
protection and use of the land.
The bog’s importance was first
reported some 15 years ago in
Bartonia, a publication of the
Philadelphia Botany Club.
Since forgotten, the area was
recently identified as a top priority
in Pennsylvania by the Con-
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AGRICULTURE:
servancy’s Eastern Pennsylvania
Chapter after it was “re
discovered” by naturalist Patricia
Christian and her husband John '
Christian, a science professor at
the State University of New York
at Binghamton.
Located about halfway between
Scranton, Pennsylvania, and
Binghamton, New luik i .
son, Wetlands provides habitat tor
great blue herons, great horned
owls, otters, and bears
Krall’s Bog contains balsam fir,
black spruce, tamarack, hemlock,
and other tree species plus a
variety of more than 360 species of
vascular plants.
Unusual plants found at Krall’s
Bog include purple-fringed orchids
and other orchids plus in
sectivorous plants such as sun
dews, bladderworts, and pitcher
plants
The Nature Conservancy
IT S YOUR
HEARTBEAT
national, non-profit organization
dedicated to the protection of
ecologically significant land.
Founded in 1951 the 100,000-
raember group has protected 1 7
million acres of valuable natural
land through approximately 2400
separate projects.
The Conservancy retains and
manages over half the natural
areas it acquires, which constitute
the largest privately-owned net
work of nature sanctuaries in the
United States
To date, the Conservancy has
already worked to preserve more
than 5,000 acres of Pennsylvania’s
finest wildlife habitat in over a
dozen projects. In addition to
Thompson Wetlands, three other
projects m Eastern Pennsylvania
are now Nature Conservancy
sanctuaries, administered by local
volunteers: Lacawac Sanctuary
and Tannersville Cranberry Bog,
both located in the Poconos, the
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To hold agronomy day
WYSQX This year’s Bradford
County Agronomy Day will feature
corn production with Penn State
Extension Agronomy Specialists
Joe McGahen and Ray Shipp
conducting the program
The meeting will be held Friday,
March 20, 10.30 to 3 p m at Wysox
Presbyterian Church
With costs of producing corn
climbing forever upward,
producers must get the most
profitable production to compete in
a cost conscious cropping
program
Topics for discussion that have
been found to be very significant in
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Phone 464-3386 • West Willow, PA 17583
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 14,1981-D9
Woodboume Forest and wucuiie
Sanctuary, near the town of
Montrose in Susquehanna County.
The Conservancy has assisted
state and federal agencies in the
acquisition of parts of Salt Springs
State Park, the Loyalsock Trail,
the Tinicum National En
vironmental Center, and Valley
Force National Park.
In addition to these projects, the
Conservancy has worked on land
protection projects with East
Stroudsburg State College, the
French and Pickering Creek Trust
in Chester County, and local
government agencies in Abmgton
Township, Lackawanna County,
and Luzerne County.
In Eastern Pennsylvania, the
Conservancy operates through
local volunteer chapter headed by
Chairman Thomas Dolan IV
Philadelphia The Chapter Vice
Chairman is Fred Studer of
Lackawanna County.
producing a profitable crop such as
corn population, weed control,
planting dates, row spacing, and
barren stalks will be given special
priority. ,
Other topics will be hybrid
selection, nlanting, disease
problems as well as mtrogen
phosphorus-potassium levels and
correlations between production
and soil fertility levels
Subjects that also relate to corn
production is another look at the
use of manure on crop land, the
new soil test recommendations for
nitrogen on corn, and a review of
the new lime test
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