Newly Preserved: The 55-Acre Employees Property in Bucks CountyHeritage Conservancy – Cyber Tech

Unique Publish by Andrea Szyper, Heritage Conservancy on 9 June 2025

In Might, Heritage Conservancy accomplished a conservation easement to guard the 55-acre Employees property in Springfield Township, Bucks County. This land is a component of a bigger 175-acre farm, Kirkland Farm, the place 120 acres had been preserved final 12 months with a Bucks County agricultural easement.

This newly protected plot is situated throughout the Cooks Creek Conservation Panorama and Watershed. It’s fully wooded and is bisected by a shallow, “distinctive worth” tributary to Cooks Creek.

This wooded plot is situated throughout the Cooks Creek Conservation Panorama and Watershed. Photograph credit score Heritage Conservancy

“This was an particularly satisfying closing due to the very long time it was in course of,” says Conservation Acquisition Specialist Kim Johnson. Heritage Conservancy labored with the house owners for a few years to get their property preserved.

The house owners began the method a number of years earlier, earlier than Kim joined the crew at Heritage Conservancy. It’s an instance of the work and dedication generally required from Conservancy workers to finish an easement, in securing assets and navigating altering circumstances. At any given second, Heritage Conservancy has a number of tasks in numerous states of progress. We presently have over two dozen within the works.

And when a closing like this occurs, our ongoing work to monitoring the property is barely starting, and that may be a perpetual dedication.

About Heritage Conservancy

Heritage Conservancy’s mission is to guard and take care of the lands of our area; to have interaction with and share the historical past that unfolded on these lands; and to attach individuals with each.

Heritage Conservancy is a community-based, nonprofit that works with communities, landowners, companies, governments, and different mission-focused organizations to make sure that the landscapes that make our area particular endure and flourish, for the good thing about individuals and nature. Based in 1958 and primarily based in Doylestown, PA, Heritage Conservancy has labored to guard greater than 17,000 acres of open area, farmland, wildlife habitat, and necessary watershed areas all through Bucks and surrounding counties.

We personal and handle over 50 properties, maintain conservation easements on greater than 250 properties, and actively pursue habitat restoration initiatives throughout the area. Heritage Conservancy additionally holds historic preservation easements and maintains a Register of Historic Locations with over 700 entries. We work together with hundreds of neighborhood members yearly in our work to attach individuals to the surroundings and historical past of our area. Our education schemes encourage advocacy for land and watershed safety, reaching about 3000 college students yearly.

Heritage Conservancy is nationally accredited by the Land Belief Accreditation Fee.