Conservation Easement

Small Acreage at Shy’s Hill has large impact for Conservation in Tennessee

Authored by Laura Sylvester  Conversations around land conservation often, inevitably, wander their way into statistics at some point, with total conserved acreage usually at the top of the statistics pile.  The numbers can be dizzying at times, making it easy to equate impact with total acres.    North American Land Trust (NALT) knows all too well that sometimes, small projects with fewer acres can hold incredible historic and natural […]

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NALT News, Projects, Stories From the Land

NALT’s Copano Cove Preserve, Protecting Vital Ecosystems along the Texas Coast, opens to the Public

ROCKPORT, TEXAS – Every spring, millions of raptors, songbirds and shore birds congregate along the Gulf Coast of Texas during their migration journeys from South America heading inland across the United States. The Texas coast is a critical ecosystem offering these avian travellers coastlines, bays and marshes as vital layovers during their long voyages. “Texas

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Turkey Neck Bend – Old Friends, the Cumberland River, and the Shallow Sea

authored by NALT Biogeographer, Williams Gandy I had a long but very good day yesterday. Betty and I left the house at 7:30am to meet a fellow western North Carolinian out in Tompkinsville, Kentucky on the Cumberland River. Jackie McClure placed over 1300 acres under a conservation easement with NALT back in 2011, just a

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Family Lands, Stories From the Land

NALT Helps Protect Karner Blue Butterfly Habitat in New York

North American Land Trust (NALT) has partnered with local governments across the United States to permanently conserve wildlife habitat and open space and help them meet the environmental goals of their communities. This team approach to conservation is working in Upstate New York, where NALT has partnered in conservation efforts to save habitat for the

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Limited Development, Municipal Lands, NALT News, Stories From the Land

NALT Protects Open Space along Florida’s Gulf Coast with Permanent Conservation Easement

CHADDS FORD, PA – North American Land Trust today announced that it has joined the City of Naples, Florida, and The Athens Group in permanently protecting 105 acres along the Gulf Coast of Florida for recreation and open space. The property, belonging to the Naples Beach Club, is being developed by The Athens Group in

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Limited Development, Municipal Lands, NALT News, Stories From the Land

First Fruits Farm

Based 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

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Projects

North American Land Trust Plans to acquire historic Joseph Davis Tract in Delaware County

CHADDS FORD, PA – North American Land Trust (NALT) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the 16-acre historic Joseph Davis Tract in Chadds Ford, which played a role in the 1777 Battle of Brandywine and where the artist N.C. Wyeth once lived and worked. NALT President Steven Carter said the nonprofit

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