Join Friends of the Wissahickon and Bill Konstant, career wildlife conservationist and a co-author of Jewel of the Wissahickon: Rewilding the Dixon Meadow. He’ll share more about the stunning photographs of local wildlife you’ll see in the coffee table book and the story of a small patch of agricultural land that has been restored to a vibrant mixture of marsh, meadow and nascent woodland. The Dixon Meadow Preserve was created to help control flooding of the adjacent Wissahickon Creek. In the process, this small tract of land has attracted hundreds of different species of plants and animal species to our region.
Senior author Bill Konstant, a Flourtown resident, is a career wildlife conservationist whose travels span the globe and whose career includes the creation and protection of national parks and nature reserves in Africa, Asia, North and South America. Bill and co-author Glenn Mason have spent the last two years hiking the Wissahickon and its surroundings so that they might document the seasonal changes in its ecology and present us with a portrait of this natural treasure.