Contact Info
Email: info@tarriver.org    Web: www.tarriver.org
Address: 123 N. Main Street, P.O. Box 1161, Louisburg, NC 27549
TEL: (919) 496-5902       FAX: (919) 496-6940

Historical Highlights
The Tar River Land Conservancy (TRLC) was established as a project committee of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust in 1999. It was then incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit land trust serving the eight counties of Person, Granville, Franklin, Vance, Warren, Halifax, Nash and Edgecombe in 2000. In its brief history, TRLC has grown to employ a full-time staff of five based out of Louisburg in Franklin County. The Conservancy also works with several volunteers and, from time to time, Interns, to assist in accomplishing the organization’s increasingly important mission.

Recognized as one of the most biologically diverse aquatic systems along the eastern seaboard, the Upper Tar has immense ecological importance. TRLC preserves the natural and cultural resources of the Tar River Basin by working in partnership with private landowners, businesses, public agencies, and others to protect rural landscapes and riparian corridors.

By the first quarter of 2005, the Conservancy has permanently protected over 3,200 acres of land through 27 projects. Much of the work has been focused in Franklin and Granville Counties due to their ever-growing threat of development from the Triangle.

TRLC has been able to realize its success by broadening its corporate and individual memberships base, developing partnerships whenever possible and by being on the forefront of innovative working relationships in order to actualize open space, farmland, forest and riparian corridor conservation work in the Upper Tar River Basin.