At 9:00 AM on Monday, January 19, please join the Bristol community in a Martin Luther King Day of Service in the Bristol Marsh. Volunteers are needed to help clean up and beautify the area. Individuals, families, scouts, students, organizations, and volunteer groups are all welcome.

The Bristol Marsh is a unique and fragile habitat, located just southwest of Historic Bristol Borough Riverfront Park. The marsh is one of the few remaining freshwater tidal marshes in Pennsylvania, and it contains a handful of rare plants native to the Delaware River. The Nature Conservancy, through an agreement with Bristol Borough and a conservation easement from an adjacent landowner, has protected a large portion of the marsh for over twenty years. In addition to its importance as a wetland, the marsh serves Bristol as a community park and education area.

Please volunteer to preserve the marsh and give back to our community.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact the Nature Conservancy’s Molly Anderson at 717-232-6001 (ext. 117) or MollyAnderson@tnc.org.

Those of you in the know should have either received the latest issue of Along the Canal or it should arrive soon. The Winter 2008 edition features updates on trail construction, the Artisan Trail, Traveling Trunks, Tales of the Towpath, grant opportunities, and more. The newsletter is our way of letting you know what we have accomplished and what we are working on.

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