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Uniform Conservation and Historic Preservation Agreement Act
Conservation Easement Program
Income Tax: Credit for certain real property donations.
North
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Appalachian
Trail Conference Land Trust
799 Washington Street
PO Box 807
Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807
Phone:
304-535-6331
Fax: 304-535-2667 |
Since 1982, the Appalachian Trail Conference Land Trust has
helped federal agencies acquire land for the 1,000-foot wide
Trail "corridor" called for by the National Trails System Act
of 1968. Now that this corridor is largely completed, the Land
Trust works to further protect the Trail experience by
protecting features of the surrounding environment. |
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Association for the
Preservation of the Eno River Valley
4419 Guess Road
Durham, NC 27712-2654
Phone: 919-620-9099
Fax: 919-477-0448 |
Organized in 1965 to assist federal, state and local
agencies to establish public parks along the Eno River Valley,
to promote the preservation of the Eno through educational and
scientific means, and to cooperate with other conservation
groups to preserve the environment. |
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Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust
1081 Old US
Highway 421 # 2
Sugar Grove, NC 28679-9553
Phone:
828-297-5805
Fax: 828-297-5928 |
Operates in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga,
Wilkes and Yancey Counties, North Carolina. |
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Botanical Garden
Foundation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375, Totten Center
Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3375
Phone: 919-962-0522
Fax: 919-962-3531 |
The North Carolina Botanical Garden is part of UNC-Chapel
Hill and is supported by the the Botanical Garden Foundation.
The Garden's lands comprise nearly 600 acres. The Garden has
established itself as a regional center for research,
conservation, and interpretation of plants, particularly those
native to the southeast. |
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Carolina Mountain Land
Conservancy
PO Box 2822
Hendersonville, NC
28793-2822
Phone: 828-697-5777
Fax: 828-697-5777 |
Since 1994 the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, working
cooperatively with landowners, has permanently protected some
8,500 acres of land in Henderson, Transylvania, and
neighboring counties. |
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Catawba Lands
Conservancy
105 W Morehead Street
Charlotte, NC
28202-1815
Phone: 704-342-3330
Fax: 704-342-3340 |
Catawba Lands Conservancy is a land trust dedicated to
preserving the land, water and wildlife resources of the Lower
Catawba River Basin in North Carolina including all or parts
of Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and Union
counties. |
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Civil War Preservation
Trust
1515 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350
Arlington,
VA 22209-2441
Phone: 703-682-2350
Fax:
703-516-4947 |
The Civil War Preservation Trust is America's largest
non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of our
nation's endangered Civil War battlefield lands. |
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Conservation Trust for North
Carolina
PO Box 33333
Raleigh, NC 27636-3333
Phone: 919-828-4199
Fax: 919-828-4508 |
Established in 1991, The Conservation Trust for North
Carolina is the only statewide land trust working with
communities, landowners, land trusts, and other conservation
organizations to protect North Carolina's natural and cultural
resources. |
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Cumberland County Conservancy
PO Box 42
Fayetteville, NC 28302
Phone: 910-483-9028
Fax: 910-483-1646 |
Established in 1998, the trust operates in Cumberland
County. |
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The
Emerald Land Trust
An affiliate group of the Southern
Appalachian Highlands Conservancy |
The mission of the ELT is to conserve natural, scenic,
recreational and historic urban and rural lands throughout
Buncombe County for present and future generations. The trust
works with private landowners, local citizen's groups and
public agencies to help preserve these lands. |
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Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina
PO
Box 3023
Morganton, NC 28680-3023
Phone: 704-437-9930
Fax: 704-437-9912 |
The mission of the Foothils Consevancy is to preserve and
protect important natural areas of the Foothills
region. |
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High Country
Conservancy
577-5 George Wilson Road
Boone, NC
28607-8612
Phone: 704-264-2511 |
The mission of the High Country Conservancy is to protect
the natural resources of Appalachia by conserving land with
significant ecological, cultural, recreational, or scenic
value in the North Carolina High Country. |
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Highlands Land Trust
PO Box 1703
Highlands, NC 28741-1703
828-526-9938 ext. 16
TD: 828-526-0066
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The mission of the Highlands Land Trust is to preserve and
protect the lands we hold in trust, maintaining their natural
state for the public. |
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Land
Trust for Central North Carolina
PO Box 4284
Salisbury, NC 28145-4284
Phone: 704)-647-0302
Fax:
704-647-0068 |
Saving the rural landscapes of Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson,
Davie, Iredell, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan and
Stanly counties is the mission of the trust. The trust works
with private and public landowners throughout these counties
to preserve the agricultural and natural lands, historic sites
and open space that have defined the region's
character. |
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Land
Trust for the Little Tennessee
3257 Goshen Road
Franklin, NC 28734-4288
Phone: (828)-524-2711
Fax: 828-524-2711 |
The mission of The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee is
to conserve the natural, scenic, rural and historic character
of the upper Little Tennessee Valley for the benefit of
present and future generations. The Land Trust works with
private land owners, local citizen groups and government to
help preserve and manage important heritage lands in the
area. |
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Lumber River Conservancy
PO Box 1087
Lumberton, NC 28359-1087
Phone: 910-738-5257
Fax: 910-738-2703 |
The mission of the LRC is to preserve and protect the
Lumber River as a natural and scenic river by preserving
natural, scenic, wild and recreational areas and waters of and
along the Lumber River and its tributaries. |
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National
Committee for the New River
PO Box 1480
West
Jefferson, NC 28694-1480
Phone: 336-246-4871
Fax: 336-246-4871 |
The NCNR is a three state, non-profit watershed
organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the New
River's scenery, recreational opportunities, water quality and
its cultural, historic and economic value. |
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Naturaland Trust
PO Box 728
Greenville,
SC 29602-0728
Phone: 803-242-3131 |
Founded in 1973, the trust operates in Western South
Carolina and adjoining mountains of North Carolina. |
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Nikwasi
Land Trust
An affiliate group of the Southern
Appalachian Highlands Conservancy |
The mission of the Nikwasi Land Trust is to conserve the
natural, scenic, rural and historic character of the upper
Little Tennessee Valley for the benefit of present and future
generations. The trust works with private landowners, local
citizen groups and government to help identify, preserve and
manage important heritage lands in the area. |
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North Carolina Coastal Land Trust
720 Market
Street
Wilmington, NC 28401-3908
Phone: 910-763-0332
Fax: 910-762-6349 |
Mission is to enrich the coastal communities of our state
through acquisition of open spaces and natural areas,
conservation education, and the promotion of good land
stewardship. The trust is active throughout the coastal plain
of North Carolina. |
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North Carolina
Rail-Trails, Inc.
PO Box 61348
Durham, NC
27715-1348
Phone: 919-542-0022
Fax:
919-542-0022 |
NCRT monitors the state's rail system, actively pursues
corridor preservation, retrieval and conversion to public
trails. NCRT fosters local leadership and currently supports
local rail-trail initiatives throughout the state. |
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Northeast New Hanover Conservancy
126 Beach
Road S
Wilmington, NC 28411-9222
Phone:
919-686-0362 |
Mission is to establish the quality, by scientific
research, of the natural resources within a 20-square mile
coastal area; to take steps to protect healthy resources and
to upgrade quality of those impacted |
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Northeast Tarheel Conservancy
203 South
Barnes Street
PO Box 694
Nashville, NC 27856-0694
Phone: 252-459-6616
Fax: 252-459-1112
An
affiliate of North Carolina Coastal Land Trust |
Mission is to promote appreciation, protection, and
enhancement of natural and cultural resources in the Upper Tar
River Basin and the surrounding region by voluntary agreements
and cooperative arrangements with like minded individuals and
organizations. |
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Pacolet Area
Conservancy
Post Office Box 310
Columbus, NC
28722-0310
Phone: 828-894-3018
Fax: 828-894-2275 |
The mission of the PAC is to preserve and to protect land
and natural resources in the greater Pacolet area through
conservation easements and gifts of land for this and future
generations. |
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Piedmont Land
Conservancy
PO Box 4025
Greensboro, NC 27404-4025
Phone: 336-691-0088
Fax: 336-691-0044 |
The PLC is a grassroots land trust representing Alamance,
Caswell, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes,
Surry, and Yadkin counties in order to protect natural and
scenic lands, farms, and open space in piedmont North Carolina
to enrich the quality of life for our communities and for
future generations. |
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Riverlink
PO Box 15488
Asheville, NC
28813-0488
Phone: 828-253-6846 |
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Sandhills Area Land Trust
PO Box 1032
Southern Pines, NC 28388-1032
Phone: 910-695-4323
Fax: 910-695-0343 |
Mission is to maintain the beauty of the Sandhills area, to
protect the diversity of native habitats and wildlife, and to
leave this legacy for future generations. |
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Smith Island Land Trust
PO Box 3203
Bald
Head Island, NC 28461-7000
Phone: 202-544-5293
Fax:
202-546-4358 |
Founded in 1996, the trust operates on Smith
Island. |
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Society for Masonboro Island
PO Box 855
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480-0855
Phone: 910-256-5777 |
Mission is to promote the perpetual preservation of the
ecosystems of Masonboro Island for the purposes of
environmental education and study, land conservation, fish and
wildlife protection and maintenance of wetland productivity.
To promote traditional public and scientific use of Masonboro
Island. |
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Southern Appalachian
Highlands Conservancy
34 Wall Street, Suite 802
Asheville, NC 28801-2793
Phone: 828-253-0095
Fax:
828-253-1248 |
The mission of the Southern Appalachian Highlands
Conservancy is to protect the world's oldest mountains for the
benefit of present and future generations. To this end, our
volunteer-based organization works with individuals and local
communities to identify, preserve, and manage the region's
important lands. |
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The
Nature Conservancy, North Carolina Chapter
One
University Place, Suite 290
4705 University Drive
Durham, NC 27707-2549
Phone: 919-403-8558
Fax:
919-403-0379 |
The mission of The Nature Conservancy's North Carolina
Chapter is to preserve North Carolina's diverse array of plant
and animal life by finding, protecting, and maintaining the
best examples of ecosystems, communities, and species native
to the state. |
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Triangle Greenways
Council
PO Box 2746
Raleigh, NC 27602-2746
Phone: 919-828-5242 |
The Triangle Greenways Council is a non-profit group of
volunteers dedicated to building trails and greenways in the
Triangle Region of North Carolina. |
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Triangle Land
Conservancy
1100 Wake Forest Road, Suite A
Raleigh, NC 27604-1279
Phone: 919-833-3662
Fax:
919-755-9356 |
TLC is a nonprofit corporation organized in 1983 to protect
the most important and scenic areas of the Triangle region of
North Carolina. TLC operates in the six county Triangle J
region of NC, which includes Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee,
Orange, and Wake counties. |
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Trust for
Public Land - Southeast Regional Office
306 North
Monroe
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Phone: 850-222-7911
Charlotte Field Office
1043 E Morehead Street,
Suite 203
Charlotte, NC 28204
Phone: 704-376-1893
Fax: 704-376-6898 |
Established in 1974, TPL's Southeast Regional Office works
to provide parks and open space and to preserve family lands
and traditional working landscapes in cities and rural
communities. |
