Orange County Land Trust Aims to Preserve 35,000 Acres in Delaware Watershed

Orange County Land Trust has set an ambitious goal to preserve 35,000 forested acres within the Delaware River watershed over the next few years. Most acres sit in the Town of Deerpark, with small portions in nearby Mount Hope and Greenville. The nonprofit’s director of conservation, Kyle Sanduski, presented the new initiative at an Upper Delaware Council meeting on Jan. 4, seeking to get the agency’s support in the massive undertaking. So far, three organizations have pledged their support to the project: Friends of the Upper Delaware River, Delaware Highlands Conservancy, and Fly Fishers International Eastern Waters Council. “This 35,000-acre region is unequivocally Orange County’s last remaining wilderness,” Orange County Land Trust Executive Director Jim Delaune said in a statement to The Epoch Times....