Press launch shared by Pure Lands, July 18. Photograph courtesy of Pure Lands.
Pure Lands introduced the everlasting preservation of the Painter farmstead in Warwick Township, Chester County. The 14-acre property is now protected by a conservation easement that may guarantee its meadows and woodlands will stay without end.
“The Painter property is quintessential Chester County: stone farm buildings surrounded by picture-perfect pastures, meadows, and forest,” stated Jack Stefferud, senior director of land safety for Pure Lands. “However its actual magnificence lies within the environmental providers this land supplies. It absorbs and filters rainwater, shops carbon, helps clear our air, and supplies habitat and meals for bugs, birds, and different wildlife.”
The Painter property is situated inside the North Warwick Historic Archaeological District and has been recognized by Warwick Township as a Class 1 historic useful resource. The conservation easement—which is a voluntary, legally binding, and everlasting land safety program—permits the farm to remain in personal possession whereas guaranteeing it stays protected against growth in perpetuity.
In 2021, Warwick Township reached out to Pure Lands for help in searching for landowners who is perhaps curious about conservation easements on properties prioritized by the Township for cover. The Painter farmstead was recognized primarily based on its measurement and adjacency to already protected State Sport Lands and French Creek State Park.
Stated Warwick Township Board Chairperson Eileen Cameron, “This website is preserved for the way forward for the township and the encircling space. Easements do extra than simply protect land; they cut back congestion, improve our woodlands and farmlands, and set up worth to our taxpayers.”
The property is a part of Hopewell Large Woods, the final giant, unbroken forest remaining in southeastern Pennsylvania. It’s also inside the Schuylkill Highlands Conservation Panorama, a conservation precedence for Pure Lands, the PA Division of Conservation and Pure Assets, and myriad different companions.
“The concept of retaining land as open area to permit wildlife to proceed to flourish is of utmost significance for our ongoing efforts for a wholesome surroundings, in addition to encouraging an appreciation and stewardship of nature,” stated landowner Jaqueline Painter. “For my household and me, there’s a private profit in that this plot of land and farm, which have been settled by my paternal ancestors within the 1700s, can be spared from future growth. Realizing this warms our hearts, and we are grateful to Pure Lands and Jack Stefferud for this chance. I’m hopeful that Pure Lands can be profitable in preserving an increasing number of land for the good thing about future generations.”
Warwick Township funded the Painter property conservation easement. The township additionally offered funding in direction of the transaction prices and funds for the stewardship contribution to Pure Lands for the perpetual monitoring, administration, and enforcement of the easement.
Pure Lands is devoted to preserving and nurturing nature’s wonders whereas creating alternatives for pleasure and discovery within the open air for everybody. Because the Higher Philadelphia area’s oldest and largest land conservation group, Pure Lands—which is member supported—has preserved greater than 135,000 acres, together with 40+ nature preserves and one public backyard totaling greater than 23,000 acres. Almost 5 million folks dwell inside 5 miles of land underneath the group’s safety. Land for all times, nature for all. natlands.org.
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