Blue Ridge Protection Partnership

The Conservation Trust is working with nine other mountain land trusts, The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Land, and The Conservation Fund to launch an ambitious collective campaign to raise approximately $150 million to protect 50,000 acres of critical conservation lands in the Southern Blue Ridge. The initiative has been divided into two phases with the first phase goal of raising $1.5 million to prepare a regional conservation plan and a strategy for conducting a capital campaign that includes a second phase being the $150 million capital campaign itself. The Blue Ridge Mountains are thought to be only second to the Amazon in the amount of flora and fauna diversity. Population growth, development, and escalating land prices makes it vital to undertake a campaign to protect the natural resources of this area now.

Partners:
Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina
High Country Conservancy
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust
Land Trust for the Little Tennessee
National Committee for the New River
Pacolet Area Conservancy
The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
The Conservation Fund
The Nature Conservancy
Trust for Public Land