Conservation Resources

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Publications

• A Self-Guided Tour of Quakertown Swamp [968K PDF]
• Growing with Green Infrastructure [4.7MB PDF]
• Implementing a Municipal Open Space Program: A Guide for Pennsylvania 's Municipalities [889KB PDF]
• Land Conservation Strategies: A Guide for Landowners
  • Landowner's Options for Protecting Family Lands
  • Conservation Easements -- Questions and Answers
  • Resource Protection Glossary of Terms
• Lasting Landscapes Handbook [3.9MB PDF]
• Leaders in the Fields: Seven Successful Municipal Open Space Referendums in the Lehigh Valley [3MB PDF]
• Mustconetcong Wetland Wonders Poster [1.2MB PDF]
• Opportunity Knocks: Open Space as a Community Investment by Michael Frank [3.5 MB PDF]
• Public Finance for Open Space: A Guide for Pennsylvania's Municipalities [5.1MB PDF]
• Quakertown Swamp and the Great Blue Heron [3MB PDF]
• Regional Open Space Priorities Report [1.2MB PDF]
• Shaping the D&L Drive [1.8MB PDF]
• Using Conservation Easements to Preserve Open Space - A Guide for Pennsylvania's Municipalities [1MB PDF]

Plans and Studies

• Borough of Bryn Athyn Municipal Parks, Open Space and Recreation Plan Update 2006 [3.3MB PDF]
• Community Revitalization in "Older Communities" [1.2MB PDF]
• Heritage Conservancy's Testimony to the Senate Agriculture Committee on the 2007 Farm Bill [98K PDF]
• Lower Neshaminy River Conservation Plan
• Middle Delaware Conservation Plan
• Moffat Estate Feasibility Study [2.1MB PDF]
• The Musconetcong River National Wild and Scenic Rivers Study: Study Report [1.5MB PDF]
• The Musconetcong River National Wild and Scenic Rivers Study: River Management Plan [1.2MB PDF]

Maps

• Churchville Nature Center to Playwicki Park Greenway [485KB PDF]
• Farms and Open Space Preserved by Bucks County [411KB PDF]
• Farms Preserved by Bucks County [371KB PDF]
• Open Space Preserved by Bucks County [430KB PDF]
• Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor [711KB PDF]
• Heritage Conservancy Open Space [326KB PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Initiative Overview [385KB PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Bushkill Watershed [3.3MB PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Cooks Creek Watershed [491KB PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Forks of the Neshaminy [417KB PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Musconetcong River Valley [415KB PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Quakertown Swamp [801K PDF]
• Lasting Landscapes®: Route 113 Corridor [4.8MB PDF]
• Roxborough Reservoir Environmental Features [3.2MB PDF]
• Roxborough Reservoir Open Space and Recreation [2.2MB PDF]
• Roxborough Reservoir Focal Features [3.7MB PDF]
• Watershed Project Area for HOAs [92KB PDF]

Partners in Conservation

Heritage Conservancy would like to acknowledge the many regional conservation organizations and governmental agencies with which we partner in furthering our goals and mission:

• 10,000 Friends
• Audubon Council of Pennsylvania
• Brandywine Conservancy
• GreenTreks Network, Inc.
• Highlands Coalition
• Montgomery County Lands Trust
• National Park Service
• Natural Lands Trust
• Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts
• Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
• Pennsylvania Environmental Council
• Pennsylvania Land Trust Association