Manada Conservancy‘s first completed project of 2025 wrapped up in February with 656 acres protected in Fishing Creek Valley. Diverse in habitat, the property contains fields, woodland, streams, wetlands, and vernal pools and is abundant in wildlife. Bordering already protected lands, this project helps to ensure in perpetuity the contiguous woodland of the Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape, a corridor that is crucial to wildlife movement and migration.
Many thanks to the landowner, Carolyn Shaffer, and partners who made this project possible including the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation, through the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund, as well as Fort Indiantown Gap’s Army Compatible Use Buffer Program, and The Nature Conservancy.
