The Girl Scout camp lies between the 70,000 acres of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the 20,000 acres of the Delaware State Forest. The conservation community has long dreamed of a wide swath of preserved land from western Connecticut, across New York, New Jersey and deep into the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania that would serve as lasting habitat and migration routes for wildlife. In May 2017, The Conservation Fund purchased the property, and it was transferred to the National Park Service on Monday. The Girl Scout group turned to the Natural Lands and Delaware Highlands Conservancy groups, which began the negotiations and complex transactions that were necessary. That same year, the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania made the decision to close Camp Hidden Falls and began their search for a way to preserve the property, which contains 15 acres of wetlands, eight "hidden" waterfalls and two miles of pristine streams. The money for the purchase came from several grants by conservation groups and from the Middle Delaware Mitigation Fund, established in 2012 as part of a settlement that allowed the construction of the Susquehanna-Roseland electric transmission line along an existing power line right-of-way. The National Park Service has taken ownership of a 1,054-acre former Girl Scout camp, which will become part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and fill in much of the gap between the national park's lands and Pennsylvania-owned game lands.
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