Nearly 620 acres of land in Stafford Township is expected to be sold to the federal government for $867,000, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The land in question, known as the Humus Tract, was purchased by the DEP in 2006 for $648,120 to preserve the wooded wetland area until the federal governmentobtained enough funding to buy the tract. The property has no road frontage and is surrounded on three sides by the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.
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