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Union-Camp Makes Contribution
WAYNE, N. J.--Nearly 50,000
acres of one of the most unique
and significant wild areas
remaining on the Eastern
Seaboard will be preserved as a
natural wilderness through
action to be taken by Union
Camp Corporation, a major
forest products firm
headquartered in Wayne, N. J.
The company will donate its
entire landholdings in
Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, with
an appraised value of $12.6-
million, to The Nature
Conservancy, the nation’s
leading non-profit, land
conversation organization.
Everett M. Woodman,
president of The Nature
Conservancy, said, “The Union
Camp Corporation gift is the
largest and most significant
land gift the Conservancy has
received in its two-decade
history of private land
conservation,” Dr. Woodman
indicated that present plans call
the Dismal Swamp land to be
conveyed to the U. S.
Department of the Interior for
operation as a national wildlife
refuge by the Bureau of Sport
Fisheries and Wildlife. The
Union Camp land lies just 10
miles southwest of Norfolk, the
center of the fast-growing
Hampton Roads area which has
a population of more than one
million.
In commenting on this action,
the Secretary of the Interior,
Rogers C. B. Morton, said, “I
am delighted with the plans of
Union Camp Corporation and
The Nature Conservancy to
convey this property to the
Department of the Interior. The
Department has long been
interested in the preservation of
the Great Dismal Swamp. In
fact, in July of this past year,
my Advisory Board on National
Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings
and Monuments recommended
i’s property be registered
as a Natural Landmark. We are
particularly pleased that Union
C: up has so appropriately
recognized the high
responsibilty to the Nation that
goes with the ownership and use
of a property which has
outstanding value in illustrating
the natural history of the United
States.”
A formal donation ceremony,
involving Secretary Morton and
Union Camp and Conservancy
officials, is planned for next
month in Washington.
The Great Dismal Swamp,
which has been called one of the
East’s last wildernesses and a
unique ecosystem, has figured
in history and legend since pre
colonial times. George
Washington and Patrick Henry
once owned portions of it.
Thomas Moore, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, and
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote
about it. The Union Camp
donation includes Lake
Drummond, a nearly circular
lake covering about 3,000 acres
and with an average maximum
depth of six feet. According to
Nansemond Indian legend, the
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Commenting further on the
announcement, Dr. Woodman
said, “This gift by Union Camp,
the major landowner in the
entire Dismal Swamp, marks
the first of what we at the
Conservancy hope will be a
continuing program to preserve
significant areas of the
Dismal.” Woodman pointed out
that many others with holdings
in the swamp could follow Union
Camp’s lead to preserve it,
which has been a goal of both
local and national conservation
groups for almost a decade.
In making the announcement,
Union Camp Chairman
Alexander Calder, Jr., said,
“The Dismal Swamp is a
natural wilderness and we’re
pleased that the company’s gift
will help to protect and preserve
it in its natural state. Our goal is
to apply each of our
landholdings to highest possible
end-use. The historic
significance of our Dismal
Swamp acreage and its
proximity to a rapidly-growing
major population center make
it a vital asset to be retained for
enjoyment and use by present
and future citizens while
providing an important addition
to the national wildlife refuge
system.”
Samuel M. Kinney, Jr.,
president of Union Camp,
added: "The nation’s tax laws,
quite properly, encourage this
type of action by individuals
and corporations. These laws
make it possible for Union
Camp to donate one of its assets
~ in this case a beautiful,
natural resource - and in
exchange receive the benefit of
a deduction of its appraised
value from taxable earnings
over a period of several years.
This benefits everyone: future
generations of Americans as
well as Union Camp
shareholders.”
The Conservancy’s national
operations director, Patrick F.
Noonan, called the Union Camp
donation “a breakthrough and
clear evidence adding to the
growing testimony of the
positive role that industry can
play in the preservation of vast
areas of natural land.”
Initially, Union Camp will
donate an "undivided interest”
of 40 per cent of its Dismal
Swamp holdings. It will add to
this percentage over the next
three years with the complete
transfer taking place in’ 1975, in
time for the following year’s
National Bicentennial
Celebration.
Today’s Dismal Swamp is
less than a third of its original
size. This shrinkage has been
principally because of
residential and agricultural
development.
The present swamp is astride
the state line, with 40 per cent in
Virginia and 60 per cent in
North Carolitia. The land
involved in the Union Camp
donation represents about one
half the swamp’s acreage in
Virginia. It also includes the
Ditch, probably the
earliest “monument” to bear
the name of the Father of our
Country. George Washington and
his associates dug the ditch in
1763 to drain the land in the
swamp for agricultural
purposes.
Union Camp, which owns
almost 1.7-million acres in six
southeastern states, came into
ownership of its Dismal Swamp
property when Camp
Manufacturing Company, one
of its predecessor companies,
acquired it in 1909.
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