005 Autumn At Tifft Nature Preserve Series

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005 Autumn At Tifft Nature Preserve Series

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Michael Frank Jr

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Photograph - Photography

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http://www.sciencebuff.org/tifft-nature-preserve/about-tifft/

Tifft Nature Preserve is a 264-acre nature refuge dedicated to conservation and environmental education. The Preserve was created in 1972
from land purchased by the City of Buffalo for a landfill site. Concerned citizens recognized the ecological importance of the site and
convinced the city legislators to plan for the area’s preservation. The completed landfill incorporated many safety measures, allowing the
land to have a new purpose, a nature preserve which opened in 1976.
The land that comprises Tifft Nature Preserve has a fascinating history. It was once part of a huge dairy farm owned by George Washington
Tifft and later became a transshipment center, primarily for coal and iron ore. During the 1950s and 1960s, Tifft's land was a dumpsite for
city refuse.
Tifft began its transformation to a nature preserve in the 1970s. Nearly two million cubic feet of solid municipal waste was enclosed in clay
and covered with soil excavated from another section of the Preserve. Ponds were enlarged, and trees and wildflowers were planted. Conservation of Tifft’s large cattail marsh helped attract a variety of animals.
In 1982, Tifft Farm Nature Preserve became a department of the Buffalo Museum of Science. Its name was later changed to Tifft Nature Preserve,
to better reflect its purpose as a preserve rather than a farm.
Today, Tifft Nature Preserve maintains a natural setting. Animals from the entire region take advantage of its ponds, marshes and woodlands.
It has become the urban sanctuary many people envisioned over twenty years ago.

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