Organization
Delaware Highlands Conservancy
Also known as: DHC
A regional land trust founded in 1994 to conserve the natural heritage of the Upper Delaware River region, spanning Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania and Sullivan and Delaware counties in New York. As of 2024 the conservancy holds easements and direct preserves on over 21,000 acres across the four counties. Specializes in farmland and forest conservation, riparian-buffer easements along Delaware River tributaries, and landowner education on bald-eagle stewardship — the Upper Delaware holds one of the densest wintering bald-eagle populations in the lower 48.
What's happening now
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What they do
- Conservation easements — perpetual restrictions on development; landowner retains ownership and (often) ag use
- Direct preserve ownership — multiple preserves open to public hiking
- Forest and farmland protection — focus on the working-landscape conservation model
- Bald-eagle stewardship & Eagle Watch program — annual winter educational events; landowner support for nest-tree protection
- Land-protection planning — works with municipalities on natural-resource inventories and zoning recommendations
- Riparian-buffer projects — [[harrington-delaware|Delaware]] River tributary protection, partnered with Trout Unlimited and the National Park Service (Upper [[harrington-delaware|Delaware]] Scenic and Recreational River unit)
Why it’s listed
DHC is the land-trust layer for the Pocono bioregion’s northern half and the Upper [[harrington-delaware|Delaware]] corridor. 30 years of continuity, 21,000+ acres held, and a working-landscape model that protects farms as farms (rather than only protecting “wilderness”) makes the conservancy a clean fit for [[directory|the directory]]‘s knowledge-care tier.
The bi-state service area (PA and NY) is also [[directory|the directory]]‘s first organization that crosses a state line — useful precedent for how bioregional institutions can outscale political boundaries.
See also
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- Substrate of: [[bald-eagle]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
- Contained by: [[poconos]]
Sources
- Delaware Highlands Conservancy public materials
- [[land-trust-alliance|Land Trust Alliance]] accreditation records
- Upper [[harrington-delaware|Delaware]] Council and National Park Service partnership documentation
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].
What links here, and how
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Practical
shares approach with
- Pocono Heritage Land Trust two land trusts dividing the bioregion roughly along county lines
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