The Trust for Public Land - 2011 Press Releases
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Located on the Palisades above the New Jersey entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, a 14.4-acre reservoir—the largest privately-owned undeveloped property remaining in Weehawken—will anchor a new public park, the Township of Weehawken, the City of Union City, the State of New Jersey, and The Trust for Public Land announced today. read more »
North Chattanooga resident Jim Johnson has made a $50,000 gift to The Trust for Public Land, formally initiating phase two of the Stringer's Ridge park project, the construction of a nearly 10-mile trail system. read more »
Today the Brushwood Community Forest in West Fairlee, Vermont, grew to more than 1,000 acres, more than doubling its size, thanks to a conservation deal completed by The Trust for Public Land, the Town of West Fairlee, and the State of Vermont. The majority of the funding came from the USDA Forest Legacy Program. read more »
The 98-acre Timber Point property along the coast in Biddeford, Maine was conveyed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today as part of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, The Trust for Public Land and the Service announced. read more »
The Trust for Public Land, working in partnership with the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust, lottery-funded Great Outdoors Colorado, the Natural Resources Conservation Service Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program and Chaffee County, has succeeded in permanently protecting a high mountain meadow just outside the City of Salida, which is part of the historic Hutchinson Ranch in beautiful central Colorado. read more »
The Trust for Public Land praised Congress today for increasing funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the nation's main program for protecting land across the country. Congress today approved a spending bill for the current fiscal year which includes $322.9 million for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a 7% increase from last year. read more »
The Trust for Public Land has received a $500,000 gift from The Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion Virginia Power. The donation is the first substantial gift from the private sector towards the acquisition of Pleasure House Point. read more »
The Trust for Public Land has released its most recent data on city park systems from across the country, showing that the 100 largest cities added more than 120 parks in the past year. read more »
A Putnam County, N.Y. property prized for wildlife habitat and water quality protection has been conserved and added to the Cranberry Mountain Wildlife Management Area, The Trust for Public Land and the State of New York announced today. read more »
The Trust for Public Land announced today it has completed the voter-approved purchase of lands along East Lyme’s Darrow Pond. The 301-acre property, which includes Smith Hill, which offers scenic views of the pond, is now owned by the Town of East Lyme and will be open to the public for passive recreation. read more »
The U.S. Forest Service, the Utah Department of Natural Resources, The Trust for Public Land, the Utah Quality Growth Commission and the Mitchell family announced today the permanent protection of 1,855 acres of forested ranchland on the north side of the town of Brian Head. read more »
The final piece of a two phase effort to protect 578 acres of the 780-acre Blossom Music Center property, situated outside both Akron and Cleveland and entirely within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, has been conserved as an addition to the National Park. read more »
A new park was opened today in Maywood, one of the most densely populated cities in the western United States. read more »
The Trust for Public Land today praised almost 50 mayors across the country for their support of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the nation's premier tool for protecting open space in urban and rural communities nationwide without the use of taxpayer dollars. read more »
The County of Hawai‘i announced today that it purchased more than 550 acres of undeveloped shoreline at Kawa, located in the Ka‘u District near the old plantation town of Pahala. read more »
