Healthy Landscapes, Healthy Communities

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Healthy Landscapes, Healthy Communities

• Drew Gilchrist
• Ann Hutchinson

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130 Acres
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4 step
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Map Of Potential Conservation Lands
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Subdivision Land Development
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www.schemmelrealestate.com
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Ringfield Chadds Ford Twp. Delaware County, PA
Ringfield, Chadds Ford Township, Delaware Co.
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London Grove Township
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London Grove Township Chester County, PA
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Marshall Pond and Marshall View I and IIWallace
Township, Chester County
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Option 1 Density-neutral
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Option 4 Country Properties
Country Properties
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Option 5 Village
Village Hamlet
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• Average amount of open space saved in a
  conservation subdivision each time a property is
  subdivided under a Growing Greener ordinance.

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Stewardship Planning for Natural Lands
Healthy Landscapes April 1, 2009 Sustainable
Landscapes Conference
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Glades Wildlife Refuge
Bear Creek Preserve
Sadsbury Woods Preserve
Hildacy Farm Preserve
ChesLen Preserve
Stroud Preserve
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Benefits of Natural Areas

• Ecological
• Recreational
• Psychological
• Economic

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Why is Stewardship Important?
Why
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Major threats to the health of a natural lands

• Fragmentation and edge effect
• Deer overabundance
• Invasive plant species
• Disruption and degradation of water cycle

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Forest Fragmentation
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What is the lesson????? Minimize your
edge Maximize contiguous cover type
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The Impact of Invasive Plants
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Why invasive plants matter invasives outcompete
natives resulting in fewer natives in the
natural areas species mix resulting in
halting or subverting of natural succession
lower diversity of food sources resulting in
degraded habitat for wildlife disruption of
nutrient cycling, hydrology, fire regimes, and
other vital ecosystem processes
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healthy
degraded
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We have to learn to love our stormwater
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Which one looks healthier to you???
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Shade the stream and armor the banks
Get the water back in the ground
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Natural Lands Trusts Top Five Stewardship
Recommendations For A Healthy Landscape
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1. Mow Less

• Mow two times /year
• St. Pattys Day, 4th July
• Use curves for natural look
• Sharp edge gives managed appearance
• Mow winding trails
• Encourage warm season grasses

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2. Control invasive plants

• Keep healthy areas healthy
• Focus efforts on keeping
• the canopy intact
• Fill the growing space
• with native replacements

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• Stop mowing turf to
• edge
• The bigger the better
• Use native species

3. Plant a riparian buffer
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4. Use native species

• Use proper plants
• for growing
• conditions
• Consider ultimate size
• of tree
• Diversity strength
• Patronize native
• plant nurseries

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5. Connect people to nature

• Trails should
• Be safe
• Enhance the users experience
• Protect the resources

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NLT Stewardship Handbook Available soon at NLT
website www.natlands.org Free download or for
purchase 57.50 SH thru lulu.com
Drew Gilchrist - Director Center for Conservation
Landowners Natural Lands Trust 215-272-1982 dgilch
rist_at_natlands.org