The Weikel Property is a valuable mix of farmed fields and woodland that provides vital habitat for local wildlife.
It is located in the Pleasant Spring Creek Watershed and has an unnamed tributary to Pleasant Spring Creek that is designated as a Trout Stocking Stream by Chapter 93.
“The County is very grateful to the Weikel family for preserving their family farms,” said John Ives, Director of Agricultural Land Preservation & Open Space Programs, Bucks County Planning Commission. “By securing agricultural conservation easements on the Weikel tracts, which took over two years to finalize, we’ve added more than 90 acres of protected farmland to a contiguous expanse of preserved land in Hilltown Township that exceeds 525 acres. Besides preserving viable Class I-IV agricultural soils, the easements will protect the scenic rural corridor of Souderton Road.”
“The cost for both easements was funded by three co-grantees: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, and Heritage Conservancy,” said Ives. “We would like to remember and acknowledge Doris L. Weikel, who sadly passed away during this process.”
The Weikel Property adds to the more than 10,000 acres Heritage Conservancy protects under conservation easement or ownership in Bucks County alone.
Over its 60+ years, Heritage Conservancy has protected more than 17,000 acres in Bucks, Montgomery, and Northampton Counties.
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