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Founded in 1906 by General Harry C. Trexler, a local industrialist, the Lehigh Valley’s Trexler Nature Preserve has entertained and educated more than 5 million people. The Nature Preserve played a significant role in saving the North American Bison from extinction by providing a place where both bison and elk could roam freely and propagate undisturbed. In 1935, the County of Lehigh took ownership of the Nature Preserve, and in 1974, construction began on the Nature Preserve’s 25-acre Children’s Zoo, which would include informal petting and feeding exhibits as well as formal exhibits to house exotic animals from Africa, Asia and Australia. In 2004, the Lehigh Valley Zoological Society assumed management of the 29-acre Zoo at the Trexler Nature Preserve. |
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