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Delaware County Natural Heritage Inventory Update Completed
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Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program scientists recently completed the Delaware County Natural Heritage Inventory update and delivered it to the Delaware County Planning Commission.
Heritage program scientists conduct these county-by-county inventories of biodiversity to evaluate the species in natural communities through tracking and mapping.
This project was an update to the original Delaware County inventory from 1992. It was funded by DCNR's Wild Resource Conservation Fund with additional funding provided by Deleware County.
Despite several centuries of agriculture and development, Delaware County still retains essential fragments of distinctive habitats that support species of concern. Delaware County has 215 individual occurrences of species tracked by the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program, including those listed as rare, threatened and endangered. It ranks 19th among the Commonwealth's 67 counties for the number of species of concern. Two of these, the bog turtle and the serpentine aster, are considered globally rare.
Paper copies of this report can be found in WPC's Pittsburgh and Middletown offices, and a digital version is now available for download (please note that this file is very large and may take some time to transfer.)You can also view all of the county inventories online.
PNHP is a partnership between The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the Game Commission, and the Fish and Boat Commission.
WPC's PNHP staff includes experts in botany, plant and aquatic ecology, ornithology, herpetology, mammalogy, invertebrate zoology, data management, and Geographic Information Systems.
For more information, visit the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program website.
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9/12/2011 |
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