Final Piece in Place PHOTO COURTESY CALEB ARROWOOD
BRYN COED FARMS’ LAND IS PERMANENTLY CONSERVED Kirsten Werner, Natural Lands
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OUR YEARS AFTER NATURAL LANDS PURCHASED the 1,505-acre Bryn Coed Farms — then the largest remaining unprotected swath of land in the Philadelphia area — the final piece of the property has been permanently conserved. In one of the most ambitious conservation projects in recent history, the entirety of the land is now protected from development forever. 24
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SOME BACKGROUND In the 1970s, the Dietrich brothers assembled the vast acreage in Chester Springs, Chester County, one parcel at a time. One of these tracts was the former homestead of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, a place he had named “Bryn Coed” (which means “wooded hill” in Welsh).
