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Saturday June 2, 2007 is Land Trust Day!

Do you like to hike, bike, walk, or run? Do you like to shop? Whatever your interest, June 2 is a day you can help protect your local environment.

On the first Saturday of June, businesses across the state show their support for land and water protection by donating a percentage of their sales, supporting membership drives, or by making a donation to their local land trust. Land Trust Day is also National Trails Day, a day when outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds celebrate the great natural heritage of our state and the nation’s trail system.

Great Outdoor Provision Company, a Raleigh-based outdoor gear retailer, began Land Trust Day in 1992 as a way of giving back to groups that are protecting the great outdoors of North Carolina. Other retail stores have followed their lead and make Land Trust Day a self-imposed “earth tax” to give back to the environment that which makes their businesses possible.

You can preserve more local places to recreate by simply getting involved in celebrating Land Trust Day. Buy a gift for yourself or others at a store participating in Land Trust Day, join your local land trust, volunteer for a trail maintenance work project, attend an educational program about the environment, and/or simply take some time to enjoy a hike, walk, run, or bike ride in a natural area near where you live.

Participating Land Trust
2006 Land Trust Day Sponsors
Find Your Local Land Trust
Interested Retailers for 2007 Land Trust Day
Materials for Land Trusts (coming soon)
Letter from Great Outdoor Provision Company Owners, Tom and Becca Valone

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