Our primary focus is preserving wetlands. These have historically been under-represented in public ownership as they are often inaccessible, don’t typically grow valuable timber, and provide fewer general recreational opportunities than dry, wooded land. But what they do provide is increasingly seen as valuable:

• Flood and erosion control
• High quality habitat for plants and animals (43 per cent of threatened or endangered species in the U.S. live in or depend on wetlands.)
• Natural filtering of pollution
• Groundwater recharge

A secondary focus has been acquiring subsurface rights under particularly sensitive governmental lands. While the conservancy acknowledges that energy and construction materials are requirements of life and can be produced safely in most places, we feel that there are some locations where drilling, mining, and quarrying would be particularly damaging to the natural environment. In those cases, we help the government acquire the subsurface rights they need to protect their land.

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John Young
800 Minard Run Rd
Bradford, Pennsylvania  16701
Phone: (607) 257-6533
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• McKean County, Pennsylvania

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