Establish Natural Habitats
KULPVILLE (Montgomery
Co.) - A growing interest in cre
ating and maintaining natural
habitats was evident at a recent
day-long workshop sponsored by
p e nn State Cooperative
Extension and its Montgomery
County Recycling Program, and
the Montgomery County
Planning Commission. More
than 180 people attended the
Natural Habitats workshop in
Kulpsville that focused on con
verting manicured grounds into
more natural landscape,
participants, a majority of
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215-683-7686
whom were commercial and
public landscape professionals,
came from Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and New Jersey.
"This was the first workshop
of its kind," says Julianne
SchiefFer, the extension's urban
forestry agent, "and we were
overwhelmed by the positive
response."
Gary San Julain, professor of
Wildlife Resources at Penn State
University, opened the work
shop with a presentation on the
basic needs of wildlife. The nine
workshop speakers emphasized
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the importance of promoting
native plants and wildlife and
discussed methods used to foster
a natural environment. From
the public sector, the following
organizations shared their expe
rience with the audience:
Washington Crossing Historic
Park, Natural Lands Trust in
Ambler, Heritage Conservancy
in Doylestown, Valley Forge
Park, and Green Lane Reservoir
Park. In addition, a representa
tive from Robert Trent Jones
Golf Club in Lake Manassas, VA
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REHRERSBURG
Leo’s Shoe Store
Godfrey St.
717-933-8169
Hersey Mills in West Chester,
spoke of how they incorporate
natural habitat management
practices into managing their
facilities.
Nancy Minich of the Heritage
Conservancy shared some habi
tat designs including how a
housing development's unused
open area was converted, using
native grasses and plants, into a
beautiful wetland with foot
bridges and walking paths. The
Environmental Education
Specialist from Green Lane
Reservoir Park, Kevin Crilley,
showed how to crate a butterfly
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garden and described the bene
fits of planting it.
Flavia Rutkosky, Fish and
Wildlife Biologist of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service in
Smryna, Delaware, spoke of sev
eral financial and professional
resources available to individu
als and organizations to help
create natural habitats.
For information about estab
lishing a natural habitat or
attending a future natural habi
tat workshop, contact
Montgomery County
Cooperative Extension Office at
(610) 489-4315.
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