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Conservation Trust for North Carolina
NC Land Trusts Help Expand Parks North Carolina land trusts save many types of land. Their mission is to protect the places people love, which means protecting North Carolina’s natural, historical, and cultural diversity. Some of these places are private lands that save family farms, sustainable forests, and the water quality of significant streams. Other places become public lands where people can hike, bird watch, hunt, fish, conduct scientific research, and enjoy the tranquility of natural lands. Most of these lands are eventually conveyed to the state so they can be accessible to all North Carolinians. Statistics show that North Carolina’s state parks have never been more popular, with hundreds of thousands of people visiting them each year. Land trusts have helped to establish or expand such popular state parks as South Mountains, the Eno River, and Hanging Rock. Land trusts are working with local, state, and federal partners to create or add to existing parks at Springers Point, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Falls Lake, Hickory Nut Gorge, and others to save important pieces of North Carolina’s wonderfully diverse natural landscape. North Carolina loses over 400 acres of natural land a day to development. The land protected by land trusts and their partners over the next ten years will determine the quality and quantity of public lands available to future generations of North Carolinians. The Conservation Trust for North Carolina provides resources and services that will enable North Carolina land trusts to accelerate their pace of land protection. You can help protect more parkland for you and your family to enjoy by supporting the Conservation Trust and your local land trust with a financial donation today.
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