Keeping those pieces connected matters for more than the view. Protected land that joins other protected land gives wildlife and plant species more room to move through the landscape. Six people oversee 5,600 acres across 145 places. The scale makes conservation a community undertaking as much as an organizational one. “We can’t be everywhere at once. So the community is a really important part of us being able to effectively do our job and steward these places into perpetuity.”
“It’s hard to think about what forever means, but it is what we are striving to do, and land conservation is one of the only ways that you can achieve forever to a meaningful degree.” “
and you get to that view where you’re looking kind of northeast back towards Cashiers, you’re looking across a lot of protected peaks, Chimney Top, Timber Ridge, Sheep Cliff, Laurel Knob, all of those we conserve.”
- Andrew Renfro Land Conservation Director Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust
www.hcltnc.org
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