WASHINGTON, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Land Trust of Tennessee, the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust and Wildlands Network received a Sustainable Forestry Initiative(R) (SFI(R)) conservation grant today in support of their work to help private landowners and government agencies in the southeastern United States protect special forest sites though working-forest conservation easements. The three non-profit conservation organizations were awarded a total of $65,000 over two years to work with hardwood forest owners, government agencies and SFI program participants to encourage owners to consider easements, and to offer advice and technical assistance.
The nonprofit group Park Friends was founded in 1992 to help maintain Overton Park and to oppose plans to pave several of its green spaces for parking. We have been advocates for protection of the park ever since. We have defeated several proposed developments and completed projects that include sprinklers for the formal gardens, signs for the Old Forest trail, ongoing maintenance and clean-ups. And now Park Friends has a modest proposal for city of Memphis officials: a conservation easement that would cover all the public green spaces of the park. Such a move would not only protect the irreplaceable old-growth forest but also prevent further paving and construction in the remainder of the park.
..., have a state natural area - where the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation enforce...The nonprofit Land Trust for Tennessee, which holds the easement for ...
Conservation of land and water involves much more than preserving trees and preventing pollution; one nonprofit organization considers business an integral part of the process. The Conservation Fund (TCF) uses its considerable resources not only to protect land and water, but also to promote economic development.
...One of its largest projects in Tennessee involved 75,000 acres on the Cumberland Plateau in... Fund has partnered with The Land Trust for Tennessee, with support of the Friends of the ...
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Jeff Bradford, +1-615-515-4880, jcb@bradfordgrp.com, for The Hermitage Hotel
... Hotel's new partnership with The Land Trust for Tennessee. The downtown Nashville luxury hotel...
Twelve stories tall and as wide as a pickup truck, the Shumard oak reaches skyward like an immense pillar, culminating in a crown overlooking the city that literally grew up around it. If Tom Heineke is right, this tree and others in Overton Park's old-growth forest have been around since the Revolutionary War. They're testaments to what Heineke, a botanist and plant ecologist, calls the continuing richness and diversity of a forest that dates back to the last ice age.
... major conservation group like the nonprofit Land Trust for Tennessee - would oversee the acreage. A...
Our citizens' support for the Memphis Zoo over the last 104 years has nurtured the zoo's growth into one of the finest zoological parks in the nation. Now, nearly a million people each year visit the zoo and are educated on the wonders of wildlife, all of which takes place in Overton Park - Memphis' premier urban park. A bill introduced recently in the Tennessee legislature, however, puts the future of the zoo and the park at potential risk. The Old Forest State Natural Area bill (SB 2415 and HB 2563) calls for nearly half of Overton Park to be placed under the direction of the Natural Areas Preservation Act of 1971. While supporters of this legislation claim that it would result in no changes in the current and intended uses of the park, the fine print and rules in the bill would restr...
... the city of Memphis and the nonprofit Land Trust for Tennessee. Under the bill introduced in ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) announced today that the Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation (Foundation) has awarded its first annual Environmental and Energy Sustainability grant in the amount of $100,000 to The Conservation Fund (TCF), a leading non-profit dedicated to advancing America's land and water legacy while supporting local economies. The grant will support TCF projects in 39 counties in eastern North Carolina and also in Davidson County - Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee. In announcing the grant at an award ceremony in Raleigh, Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation President, George Baldwin commented, "The Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation and Piedmont Natural Gas are committed to enriching the economic, environmental and social vital...
... of Nashville, Davidson County and the Land Trust for Tennessee to create a comprehensive "green inf...
Riding a bike into the shelter of the Old Forest in Overton Park is almost like bursting into an air-conditioned house. The sudden drop in temperature can be exhilarating. This is old-growth forest with mayapples and pawpaws among the more gaudy examples of the hundreds of plant species that catch your attention.
...Landscape architect George Kessler in a 1910 speech noted th... growth as luxuriant as in the Western Tennessee and Eastern Arkansas forests, and in the two hundr... Council that, with the help of the Land Trust for Tennessee, would establish a conservation ease...
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