Southeast

About the Southeast Region

Faced with rapid loss of environmental and land resources in the fastest developing region of the country, concerned citizens have organized land trusts across much of the Southeastern U.S. and have nearly doubled the pace of land conservation this decade. 

Citizens of the region have responded to these threats in part by establishing land trusts to save many cherished but vulnerable natural places and community green spaces. Most of the 150 active land trusts working across the Southeast are relatively young, but dedicated to saving land and water resources fundamental to the survival of the South’s natural and cultural heritage—its “green legacy.” Learn more about the Southeast.

How We Help

The Land Trust Alliance is committed to helping land trusts across the Southeast increase their pace of land conservation, enhance their quality of performance and program strength, and assure permanence of their organizations and the lands they protect. 

Recent News

Alliance president, Rand Wentworth, joined leaders of government, business and community organizations in early February, for the Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh, where he gave a  speech on “Changing Landscapes: Building the Good Growth State.”  At Duke University the following day, he spoke at the Nicholas School of the Environment to faculty, students and leaders among the land trust community in North Carolina. Download speech >> | Listen to audio >>

Regional Conservation Success

 Photo by Frank McKay

Western View-Shed of Chattanooga Protected

The Tennessee River Gorge Trust has been working with heirs of the Leo Stolphmann family to acquire a 308-acre conservation easement which protects, in perpetuity, the western view-shed of the City of Chattanooga. This brings the total preserved land to more than 16,700 acres or 62% of the Gorge in only 27 years. Read more

Read more success stories from the Southeast region.

We'd Love to Hear From You

PO Box 33355
Raleigh, NC 27636-3355
Phone: 919-424-4427
Fax: 919-424-4401
E-mail:southeast@lta.org
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