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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Kevin Riordan - The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS), Oct 21, 2021</span><o:p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">In 2001, Moorestown Township bought 130 acres known as the Benner Farm to protect it from the development boom that was transforming the rural landscape along both
sides of Westfield Road.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Twenty
years later, the grassroots nonprofit <a href="https://www.stemonline.org/" title="https://www.stemonline.org/">
Save the Environment of Moorestown</a> (STEM) is leading an effort to transform the Burlington County site, now called
<a href="https://www.stemonline.org/swederun.html" title="https://www.stemonline.org/swederun.html">
Swede Run Fields</a>, into a destination for butterflies, birds, bees, other pollinators — and people. All of which are species under significant stress and in need of safe and nurturing places.</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Link to article: https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/associated_press/creating-native-grasslands-and-wildflower-fields-for-moorestowns-butterflies-birds-bees----and/article_3b49a99e-2845-5270-b926-bcc85ddf2eab.html</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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