As a followup: here is the email I received late last year:
NEW SPECIAL REGULATION ACCESS ON THE BRODHEAD
Fellow Anglers,
As a lifelong fisherman and lover of rivers, I’d like to share with you a tremendous opportunity that has been presented on my very favorite stream, the Brodhead. In December 2012, a 40+ acre parcel between Analomink and Henryville on the nations most historic trout water came up for sale. In odrer to protect this naturally significant and historically well known section of the stream, leaders of the Brodhead Watershed Association (BWA) and the Pocono Heritage Land Trust (PHLT) presented to Ed Cramer and Daryl Eppley, two of the very forward thinking Supervisors of Stroud Township, a plan to turn the former golf course into a nature preserve. They immediately saw that this proposed preserve could serve as the centerpiece to a greenway that the Township has been putting together over the last two decades. The Supervisors voted to commit money from the Township’s Open Space Fund to the project and, in May, they were able to acquire the property.
Then in June, we received more good news. A representative of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation in New York informed Doug Swift, a board member of BWA, that the Foundation had approved a 1:1 matching grant of $25,000 to BWA and PHLT with the provision that all of the funds be used to help create what is now being called the Forevergreen Preserve.
Since that time, the pieces have been falling into place and the former golf course is quickly evolving into a nature preserve that will serve as the crown jewel in the Township’s greenway and offer public access to very fishable, gorgeous, historic trout water managed under special regulations. Our vision is that the building on the property will become headquarters for BWA and PHLT and an interpretive center providing education, including a display highlighting key role of the Brodhead in the development of American flyfishing tradition.
One remaining hurdle is matching the Foundation’s grant. Therefore, I’m hoping that anyone who has ever wanted to drop a line into the cold, clear waters of the Brodhead will join me in helping to match this grant and turning this tremendous opportunity into a reality. As fisherman, this is a project we can all be proud of, so please make your tax-deductible donation to the Brodhead Watershed Association; Box 339; Henryville, PA 18332 and designate your gift for the Forevergreen Preserve.
Many thanks, and I’ll see you on the river,
Don Baylor
