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Located on Twin Oaks Drive
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N 40° 28.500
W 079° 40.719
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Property
Description
This
is our smallest property rounding out at about 17 acres with
parking lot access along Twin Oaks Lane. A power line that cuts
across the reserve was clear-cut by Allegheny Power in September
2000.
Tomer is the least diversified of the reserves, primarily
because of its size and the power line, but it has some unique
features. It contains the only known hackberry tree on our
properties and a sizable American chestnut tree that thus far
shows little sign of the chestnut blight. Both these trees grow
right along the loop trail that traverses the reserve. The woods
has both mature and secondary growth timber and offers a short,
but aesthetic walk in a charming patch of forest. A windfall at
the middle of the loop trail provides a fair amount of brush for
bird and mammal habitat. The loop trail ascends gradually
beginning at the parking lot and circles downhill to the
intersection of Twin Oaks Lane with Sardis Road. You complete
the loop back to the parking lot by walking on Twin Oaks Lane,
or you can return via the power line meadow. Birders will
appreciate walking along the power line in the spring and summer
as nesting and migrating birds move back and forth across the
cleared meadow beneath the lines.
Property History
The heirs of a local
artist, Barbara Holzshu Tomer, gave the Westmoreland Conservancy
an 18-acre parcel of land in remembrance of their mother. This
parcel was part of a larger holding that originally had been
targeted for subdivision. |
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