Another Landmark Conservation Success at the Texas Coast We are thrilled to announce that 2,230-acres of land, protected by North American Land Trust (NALT) in Port O’Connor, Texas, is being purchased by the Coastal Bend & Bays Estuary Program, ensuring that this extraordinary landscape will forever become a public resource. The Pass Cavallo Ranches consist […]
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NALT News, Projects, Stories From the LandBig Creek Wildlife Foundation. a not-for-profit 501c3, took ownership of the Rocky Broad River Falls Conservation Area to provide natural and scenic enjoyment to the public. The Broad River runs along the length of the eastern boundary of the conservation area and includes a number of forested habitats like oak hickory forest and cove forests
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ProjectsThe Miracle League of the Triangle, Inc. took ownership of the Conservation Area and established community playing fields for sports such as soccer, baseball, etc. on the upland portion of the property, while protecting the wetland and floodplain areas bordering Richland Creek on the eastern boundary of the property. The area protects open space for
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ProjectsBased in Louisburg, North Carolina, First Fruits Farm was founded by former NFL lineman, Jason Brown, to share the love of Christ and aid in hunger relief in eastern North Carolina. Originally known as Harris Farm, this land had two conservation easements on 110 acres that had been donated to North American Land Trust 4 years
NALT holds conservation easements on 6 properties consisting of golf courses, wetland communities, riparian corridors and other sensitive environmental areas within the community of St. James, NC which were identified and documented by NALT and the owners prior to construction of the St. James Community. The long-term sustainability and potential enhancement of these features was
The Southern Highlands Reserve, a native plant arboretum located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, showcases native plants and the rare ecology of high-elevation Southern Appalachian forests. The garden, consists of 7 properties protected by the North American Land Trust, is designed to uphold and honor the spirit of the land. Southern Highlands
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ProjectsAn approximately 4-acre Butterfly Management Area comprising 3 acres of butterfly habitat and 1-acre buffer between the butterfly habitat and residential lots as well as a 154-acre open space parcel were placed into conservation easements with NALT. In order to assure that this small parcel continues to provide habitat for those species well into the
The Richland Ridge Study Area includes seven environmentally sensitive parcels located in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina subject to conservation easements held by NALT. Among the natural communities found in the Richland Ridge Study Area is the rare and fragile Southern Appalachian shrub bog community. Unlike northern bogs of glacial origin, mountain bogs
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ProjectsPalmetto Bluff describes a 22,000 acre property located just southwest of the town of Bluffton, and east of Hilton Head Island, in coastal South Carolina. Found just behind South Carolina’s line of barrier islands, including Hilton Head Island, Palmetto Bluff is itself an old barrier island. Its front consists of a line of parallel dunes
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ProjectsPalmetto Bluff describes a 22,000 acre property located just southwest of the town of Bluffton, and east of Hilton Head Island, in coastal South Carolina. Found just behind South Carolina’s line of barrier islands, including Hilton Head Island, Palmetto Bluff is itself an old barrier island. Its front consists of a line of parallel dunes
