Jan 5, 2021
The Western New York Land Conservancy and the Friends of the College Lodge Forest are pleased to announce that the community has matched the challenge gift and reached their fundraising goal to save the College Lodge Forest. Located near Fredonia, this spectacular forest has long been a cherished community gathering place in Chautauqua County. Once purchased,it will be permanently protected.
During the past few years, the Land Conservancy and the Friends of the College Lodge Forest carried out an ambitious fundraising campaign to protect the property. Purchased in 1939 by SUNY Fredonia students, with their own funds, for the main objective of promoting health outdoors, the land has been a prized learning laboratory for thousands of teachers, researchers, students, and the entire community ever since. The Faculty Student Association (FSA), a non-profit auxiliary of SUNY Fredonia, has owned the property and operated a histo