Historical Highlights

Since 1990, Piedmont Land Conservancy (PLC) has protected over 10,000 acres on 73 sites with land values exceeding $25,000,000. PLC is the only land trust serving Alamance, Caswell, Randolph, Guilford, Rockingham, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin counties. Listed below are samples of our projects by focus area.

UNIQUE NATURAL AREAS

Ridges Mountain (Randolph County)

	180 acres, including enormous rock boulders, rare plants, amphibians, wild turkeys and bobcats
	Keyauwee Indian and early trading post history
	Partnership with N.C. Zoological Park and N.C. Natural Heritage Trust Fund

Flat Shoals Mountain (Stokes County)

	388 acres for Hanging Rock State Park expansion
	Nesting habitat for peregrine falcon (N.C. Endangered), black vultures (uncommon), timber rattlesnakes (threatened), and Wherle’s salamander (threatened)
	Protects important views from the Hanging Rock overlook

RIVERS AND STREAMS

Mitchell River Watershed Protection and Restoration Project (Surry County)

	Over 5,000 acres protected on eleven sites protecting region’s only Outstanding Resource Water (N.C.’s highest water quality designation)
	Strategies include land purchases in headwaters, acquisition of riparian easements, and restoration of degraded stream banks
	Partnership with 18 organizations and agencies, $2.1 million awarded from the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund

Dan River Protection (Stokes County)

	80 acres protected on three sites
	Land purchases and easements along the scenic Dan River canoe trail near Hanging Rock State Park
	Mature forests and significant aquatic species, including federally endangered James River spinymussel

FARMLAND AND FARMING COMMUNITIES

Sutphin Mill Farmland Protection Project (Alamance County)

	484 acres protected on five contiguous farms, community-initiated project, protecting prime soils and farming traditions
	Goal to protect 1,500 contiguous acres
	Funding from the N.C. Farmland Preservation Trust Fund, Weaver Foundation, Alamance Foundation, and the Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund

Liberty-Randleman Agricultural Corridor (Randolph County)

	Over 1,000 acres protected on five farms, community-initiated goal to protect corridor of farmlands from Liberty to Randleman
	Funding from the Syngenta Crop Protection Division, N.C. Farmland Preservation Trust Fund, N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund, U.S.D.A. Farmland Protection Program, Town of Ramseur and Hillsdale Fund

URBAN GREEN SPACES

Price Park (Guilford County)

	92 acres, 5 th largest park in Greensboro
	PLC purchased land from Jefferson-Pilot Corporation with private funds from Kay Bryan Edwards and Family; transferred property to the City of Greensboro with an easement to protect land as natural area park

Lake Brandt Greenway and Weaver Bridge (Guilford County)

	3-mile greenway along abandoned railroad corridor, including longest freestanding pedestrian bridge in N.C.
	Greenway connects Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Bur-Mil Park and 30 miles of trails, including the Bicentennial Greenway
	Partnership with the Weaver Foundation, City of Greensboro, Guilford County, Starmount Company, and a homeowners association

Historic Bethania (Forsyth County)

	Nearly 75 acres protected within and adjacent to National Register Historic District
	Protects rural landscape in 18 th century Bethania, only remaining example of an “open field style agricultural village” in North Carolina.
	Partnership with the N.C. Natural Heritage Trust Fund, the Conservation Fund, and N.C. Department of Cultural Resources

Emily Allen Wildflower Preserve (Forsyth County)

	6 acre preserve in Winston-Salem
	Nationally renowned collection of Southern Appalachian woodland wildflowers, 28 of known 32 species of southern Appalachian trilliums

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (Guilford County)

	Seven sites acquired, several under negotiation
	Partnership with National Park Serviceand Guilford Battleground Company to protect lands within the Guilford Courthouse National Landmark from encroaching development