Our Forest, Our Future

(Last updated 4-5-2022)

The property contains part of a wetland, and hosts significant resident bird populations, .comas well as important migratory populations of warblers and other songbirds, which are vanishing from our environment due to habitat loss. Not to mention other native wildlife.

According to Dr. Adam Langley of Villanova University, (whose analysis was based on an even earlier proposal which removed only 462 trees), would release 15,000 metric tons of CO2 into our atmosphere -- equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of 3,200 vehicles and greater than the total annual CO2 savings if all of Lower Merion converts to carbon free electricity. It is likely that the carbon released from the soil disturbance would be DOUBLE this amount. The storm water management services this forest provides are invaluable as described in this Penn State video.

Above: View at 1835 County Line Road. Below: View from Stoneleigh

Another 60-inch diameter oak

Above: Satellite view, with overlay of the plan for the fields