$150K Grant Bridges Gap for Chandler Mill Nature Preserve

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A trail segment to be included in the Chandler Mill Preserve--via Daily Local News, the Land Conservancy of Southern Chester County.

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It’s a vision of a quiet, peaceful plot of natural beauty, and the group of Kennett Township residents and volunteers behind it is another step closer to preserving it forever.

They’ve already saved the iconic Chandler Mill Bridge that symbolizes “the bucolic peace and beauty of the area,” Matt Freeman wrote in a report for the Daily Local News, and they’ve already received a generous donation of the 45 acres that surround it. Now there’s $150,000 from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources just granted to the Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County for the official creation of the Chandler Mill Nature Preserve and Interpretive Nature Center.

The money clears the way for a water-permeable parking lot, riparian plantings, rain gardens, pollinator gardens and trails through the nature preserve, where “some of the most biodiverse habitats in the region” exist at the convergence of Red Clay and Bucktoe creeks.

The prospect of the imminent nature preserve has been so alluring that even the Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County moved its headquarters into a former bed and breakfast near the National Register of Historic Places-listed bridge.

Though the bridge and area are already attracting visitors, work on the plantings, trails, and interpretive center is anticipated to stretch into spring 2017.

Read more about the coming Chandler Mill Nature Preserve and Interpretive Nature Center in the Daily Local News here.

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