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![]() Linville River
Conserving Lands and Waters of the Blue Ridge Foothills
Foothills Conservancy has been able to give a wonderful gift to the Blue Ridge Foothills:
permanent protection of more than 43,000 acres of important watershed and forest lands.
South Mountains - click for background info
Watershed in 2005 to South Mountains State Park, providing a new western entrance to the park & a location for a planned
environmental education center.
in 2002, & in 2003 added 2,896 acres to Pisgah in Lake James' Bear Creek watershed - a total of 3,500+ acres acquired with
$6.5 million in Federal funds.
below the Gorge for state game lands & almost 3,000 acres and 30 miles of shoreline for a major Lake James State Park addition.
watershed above Lake James.
Conservation Trust; land that fronts almost a mile of the Linville River across from the Parkway's Linville Falls campground.
working with N. C. State Parks to secure priority tracts for the park.
Mountain Land Conservancy to secure $16 million to acquire the 1,600-acre World's Edge tract in 2005 as the new park's
first property.
this year of the 996-acre Chimney Rock Park for the new park - since renamed Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park.
in 2005 received donated fee interest in the property & acquired additional acres along a mile of the river to establish the
conservancy's 234-acre River Bend Boundary Preserve.
adjacent 130 acres to establish the June Carol Adams Preserve. In 2005-06, placed conservation easements on 477
adjoining acres.
in an $11.5 million Duke-Energy hydro-relicensing related deal supported by the N. C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund.
three scenic byways, includingthe byway along the Yadkin River through Happy Valley.
& beginning to work with willing landowners to implement protection options, including conservation easements.
Scenic Wilson Creek in Caldwell County for $7 million.
near Old Fort.
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