Eagle Scout proposes 500 native trees at Plum Run Preserve; board recommends approval

Zach Teich, a Life Scout with Troop 23 and an entering senior at Downingtown STEM Academy, told the East Bradford Township Parks and Recreation Board he plans to plant approximately 500 native tree seedlings on the Lenape Road Tract of the Plum Run Preserve as his Eagle Scout project this fall, preferably in October. The board recorded that the planting would expand the riparian buffer along Plum Run, provide wildlife habitat and create a natural screen between the new trail and Lenape Road (Route 52).

The board unanimously recommended the project be approved by the Board of Supervisors after a motion by Mrs. Bausinger and a second by Mr. Colley. The recommendation is advisory; final authorization rests with the Board of Supervisors. The proposal as described includes the location (Lenape Road Tract), an approximate planting count (about 500 seedlings) and a preferred planting window (October).