Delaware Highlands Conservancy Celebrates 100th Birthday Of Founder Barbara Yeaman By Establishing A New Land Conservation Fund

On December 16th, 2024, the Delaware Highlands Conservancy’s beloved founder, Barbara Yeaman, will celebrate her 100th birthday!

Barbara founded the Conservancy thirty years ago, in 1994. 

Since those early days, the organization has grown from a small group of dedicated volunteers to a prominent organization with offices on both sides of the Delaware River and nearly 19,000 acres of farms and forests, clean waters, and wildlife habitat protected to date.

Click Here for a recent interview with Barbara Yeaman on WJFF Radio Catskill.

In honor of Barbara’s 100th birthday and the decades that she has dedicated to protecting the lands and waters we all cherish—while inspiring generations of others to do the same—the Conservancy is establishing the Barbara Yeaman Fund for Land Conservation. 

The fund will assist landowners with the costs associated with protecting their land with a conservation easement and will support the Conservancy in offering educational programs on conservation and sustainable land management.

To celebrate Barbara’s legacy of protecting the Upper Delaware River region, we invite you to join us by making a special inaugural gift of $100 to the Fund. 

An anonymous donor will match the first 50 contributions of $100, instantly doubling the impact of each dollar.

Make your gift online today and enter “Barbara Yeaman Conservation Fund” in the “special purpose for your donation” box, or mail a gift to: Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Barbara Yeaman Conservation Fund, 571 Perkins Pond Rd, Beach Lake, PA 18405.

For more information on programs, initiatives and special events, visit the Delaware Highlands Conservancy website or call 570-226-3164 or 845-583-1010.  Click Here to sign up for regular updates from the Conservancy, Like on Facebook and Follow on Twitter. Learn about the Green Lodging Partnership initiative.  Click Here to support their work.

The Delaware Highlands Conservancy is committed to sustaining our rural quality of life and focused on the connections between local citizens, a healthy environment, and a strong local economy.  It has permanently protected over 18,900 acres of working farms and forests, clean waters and wildlife habitat in the Upper Delaware region.

(Reprinted from the Delaware Highlands Conservancy website.)

[Posted: December 5, 2024]  PA Environment Digest