Press Releases
More Added at Whisper Mountain
In 2011, two more "puzzle pieces" were added to the conservation matrix at Whisper Mountain. Sitting high in the mountains on the Buncombe-Madison county line, it is an ecologically oriented development. SERLC and the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy have...
New Easement Along Enoree River
A new easement will protect land along the Enoree River in the rolling pastoral land of the South Carolina Piedmont. The easement directly adjoins a South Carolina Heritage Preserve that was established to protect a Federally-endangered species as well as other rare...
Georgia Tracts Added
In the Georgia piedmont, three large tracts in proximity to each other were added, creating a total of 2611 protected acres. The easements include a variety of habitats such as Bottomland hardwood forests, pine plantations, Mixed mesic hardwood forests, Oak-hickory...
May 2011 Press Release
The Southeast Regional Land Conservancy now protects a cumulative acreage of twelve thousand eight hundred ninety-eight (12,898) acres in a total of thirty-five projects (as of the end of 2011). Of the projects, six are in Alabama, fourteen in Georgia, eleven in North...
The Preserve at Little Pine in Madison County
This past year the Southeast Regional Land Conservancy (https://serlc.org/) added a key jewel to its crown of protected land in the high mountains of the Southern Appalachians. Undisturbed forest habitat with so many Old Growth attributes is quite rare and restricted...
Sandhill Easement
In 2010 the Southeast Regional Land Conservancy (https://serlc.org/) placed an easement protecting one thousand one hundred fifty-one (1,151) acres between Aiken, SC, and Augusta, GA. It is situated along in the northern edge of the Fall-line Sandhills which divide the...
2010 SERLC Summary
The Southeast Regional Land Conservancy protects a cumulative acreage of seven thousand nine hundred thirty-three (7,933) acres in a total of thirty-one projects. Of the projects, six are in Alabama, eleven in Georgia, eleven in North Carolina, two in South Carolina,...
Whisper Mountain
When Bob and Meredith Stroud bought their twenty mountainside acres in WNC, they gave themselves a piece of heaven. When they placed a conservation easement on the land they gave a gift to the world. They became a part of protecting global biodiversity for...
Boone Creek
New for 2009 is the Boone Creek conservation easement. It is a 233-acre site located between the Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the St. Mary’s River in the Georgia coastal plain. The land cover is composed of a matrix of pine plantations and wetlands, with...
Family Pride
Some years ago the Martin family joined with other families to protect a piece of Heaven in the North Georgia Mountains, complete with a clear rushing trout stream. In 2006 their dream of placing the land under permanent protection became a reality as they worked with...