LANDLINE Winter 2015
A Western Reserve Land Conservancy newsletter www.wrlandconservancy.org LANDLINE Winter 2015 Nearly 3,800 ‘Farmland forever’ acres preserved Family permanently preserves Copley Township farm in 2014 The largest remaining farm in Western Reserve Copley Township has been permanently Land Conservancy protected. permanently protected 42 Lonesome Pine Farm, a 119-acre properties totaling 3,786 tract in western Summit County, has acres in northern and been permanently preserved with a eastern Ohio during 2014. conservation easement granted to the It was the fifth-highest Land Conservancy by owners Sally acreage total since Gamauf and her daughter, Darcy Brandel. 1987, the year the first The farm, which has been in the family for conservation easement 92 years, is on Cleveland-Massillon Road, was granted to Chagrin about a half-mile south of Copley Circle. River Land Conservancy, “Darcy and I wanted to see it remain one of the groups farmland forever,” said Gamauf, a retired that merged to form University of Akron psychologist and Western Reserve Land former member of the Land Conservancy’s Conservancy in 2006. Sally Gamauf preserved her Summit County farm. Medina Summit Chapter. “We also wanted To date, the Land continued page 3 Conservancy has preserved 558 properties totaling 41,954 acres. Urban forester helps tree program take root In urban areas, the Land Conservancy’s The Land Conservancy now has time for action. It is time to get our Thriving Communities its own urban lumberjack. hands dirty.” Institute completed Colby Sattler, our new urban Sattler said the Land property surveys in forestry and natural resources Conservancy is modeling Reforest East Cleveland, Akron, project manager, is responsible Our City after the best elements Oberlin, Sandusky and for advancing Reforest Our City, of nationally successful urban Cleveland’s Buckeye- the Land Conservancy’s urban tree initiatives but tailoring it to fit Mount Pleasant area.
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