At our 2019 Annual Meeting we announced the upcoming creation of a new trail through the Canaan Preserve, which connects Strouds Run State Park with the Baker Preserve. This new connector, an essential stretch of trail for longer-distance hiking, will be named for, John Arthur Knouse, our visionary founding member.

Our latest newsletter, number 6, is now online at https://www.athensconservancy.org/…/News…/AC-newsletter6.pdfThis issue features the year 2019 in review and a writeup on the Bluebell Preserve.

We are delighted to report that the Athens Conservancy received two grants totaling $7,955 this fall from the Ora E. Anderson Conservation Fund for Appalachian Ohio.  The bulk of the funding will be used to purchase a critical half-mile section of former B&O rail corridor for the Athens-Belpre Rail-Trail project.  This grant completes the funding…