Welsh Mountain First Step Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

OReviewer: As there's been no response to my earlier note, I am forced to archive this listing.

If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact me email, including the GC Code, and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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-OReviewer

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Hidden : 11/18/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

First step in 870+ acre project completed.

Five years of heard work, planning, fundraising, and coordinating efforts to purchase woodland in Salisbury and East Earl Townships has finally proven successful. On December 30, 2008, the LCC closed on this important 277.183 acre parcel adjacent to Money Rocks County Park. This acreage is one of three properties totaling more than 870 acres in the Welsh Mountains portion of the Highlands Region that is targeted for protection.

Welsh Mountain, rising over 1,000 feet in eastern Lancaster County and western Chester County, contains the second largest contiguous forest in Lancaster County, surpassed only by the forests of the Furnace Hills. The long Welsh Mountain ridge sits just south of Pennsylvania Route 23, and provides scenic vistas of highly productive Amish farms in the valleys below. The waterways of Welsh Mountain feed Chesapeake Bay, the country’s largest estuary. Area streams include Pequea Creek and tributaries of the Conestoga River. Mill Creek, at the western end of Welsh Mountain, is the source for New Holland’s six-acre reservoir. Welsh Mountain supports a diversity of plants and animals on its wooded slopes and rock outcroppings. Black birch is typical, with an understory of mountain laurel. The rock outcroppings are covered with lichens, mosses, and ferns. ~The Pennsylvania Highlands Conservation Atlas.

These Welsh Mountain forests are ideally suited as an educational and recreational area for outdoor classrooms, hiking, biking, and bird-watching opportunities.

For more information, visit: LCC

NOTE: The Lancaster County Conservancy does not allow the public to hide geocaches on lands it protects. If you would like to work with the Conservancy to place additional geocaches, please contact us at above link

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