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Triangle Land Conservancy
To protect important open space -- stream corridors, forests, wildlife habitat, farmland and natural areas -- in Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange and Wake counties to help keep our region a healthy and vibrant place to live and work.
Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange and Wake Counties
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Email: info@tlc-nc.org Web: www.tlc-nc.org
Address: 1101 Haynes Street, Suite 205, Raleigh, NC 27604
TEL: (919) 833-3662 FAX: (919) 755-9356
Since 1983, TLC has permanently protected more than 6,700 acres of the most important open spaces in the region. We manage 2,700 acres on 23 properties, monitor 2,400 acres on 23 private properties protected with conservation agreements, and have partnered with other organizations to protect 1,500 acres at seven sites. Our protected lands include preserves open for public outdoor recreation, working and historic farms, and urban gardens.
By early 1984, the volunteers who founded TLC one year earlier had achieved their first success: a conservation agreement to preserve Temple Flat Rock in eastern Wake County, a unique site of cacti and rare flowering plants growing from exposed granite bedrock. Soon after, they began raising funds to purchase the first 40 acres of TLC's White Pines Nature Preserve in Chatham County, the most biologically distinctive natural area in our region.
Twenty-plus years later, TLC has grown from an all-volunteer start-up to a professionally staffed organization with a national reputation. Temple Flat Rock still enjoys TLC's careful stewardship, and White Pines is now a vibrant 275-acre preserve with hiking trails open to the public year-round.
We have earned our reputation as the regional authority in land conservation through tangible results, consensus building, and partnering. Now more than ever, TLC members, supporters, volunteers, and staff are dedicated to the urgent task of saving critical open spaces for the people of our six-county region.
To best serve the conservation needs of our large region-six counties, 31 municipalities, 2.1 million acres-TLC has gone through a rigorous process to identify five Priority Areas where we focus our conservation work. Criteria used to select these five areas include conservation values, conservation opportunities, threats, and need. The five areas reach each of our six counties, with four of them bridging county boundaries. They are:
Weaving through a fabric of fragile natural areas, legendary historical sites, productive farms, and working forests between Chatham and Lee counties, the Deep River offers a lifeline of clean water to its neighboring communities, a haven for wildlife, and a retreat for anglers and paddlers.
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Boulder-strewn and wild, tumbling and twisting beneath bare-faced cliffs, New Hope Creek slithers eastward through a narrow, forested valley to a new life as a lazy floodplain stream inching south to Jordan Lake, and ultimately, to the water taps of thousands of our neighbors.
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Through the rolling green pastures and rich red dirt farmlands of northern Orange and Durham counties flows the Little River. One of the cleanest rivers in the state, it provides habitat for otter, beaver and other aquatic critters and drinking water for the people of Durham.
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Just 12 miles east of Raleigh, a 7,500-acre landscape of pastures, fields, hardwood forests and wetlands sits largely undisturbed, dotted by historic homes, farms, stores and churches that remind us of a 270-year farming tradition. TLC has built a dynamic partnership with county and state government, local communities, and other non-profit organizations to conserve 5,000 acres where the still-clean waters of Mark's Creek meet the Neuse.
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South of Smithfield, the Neuse River spreads into a mysterious marshland of oxbow lakes, sloughs and levees. This vast floodplain wilderness is the largest undeveloped area in our region, providing exceptional wildlife habitat and a critical filter to preserve clean water for downstream communities.
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