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The neighborhood near Atlanta University center is so closely associated with the Civil Rights movement that its street names evoke the era: Student Movement Street, SNNC, or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Street. Paschals’, the restaurant where Martin Luther King and his friends planned and drank sweet tea is across the street read more »
National Park Service recently purchased 160 acres of land in Los Angeles County, bringing the total public parkland within Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to almost 79,500 acres. read more »
Students at PS 181 in Brooklyn celebrated the opening of their new playground Wednesday. It's the 50th collaborative playground built under the Trust for Public Land. read more »
William Aila Sr. crouches among rows of red oak lettuce and baby kale, pointing out the plants mature enough to harvest. Attentive students huddle around him to hear his soft baritone. At 72, William serves as chief agricultural consultant on O‘ahu’s largest certified organic farm. read more »
04/08/2011At its 25th Anniversary Conference on April 8, the N.H. Preservation Alliance unveiled 25 of New Hampshire’s greatest preservation achievements of the past 25 years, and explored what these successes mean for our state. read more »
Hundreds turned out March 27 for the grand opening of they city’s newest waterfront jewel, J.C. Weaver Park. read more »
In October 2008, as the economy became a gray expanse of toxic rubble, this spot in the historic Fourth Ward was a gray expanse of toxic rubble. The neighborhood flooded often. Broken concrete and tainted soil buried ironically named Clear Creek. A hundred or so optimists gathered on a hot fall day and broke ground for a park. read more »
A 202-acre property north of Marshall Corner Road in Pomfret will be protected from development as a new park, thanks to the efforts of The Trust for Public Land and the Charles County Commissioners. read more »
The community on Oahu's North Shore of Oahu is well known for coming together to protect the area's land and to conserve the "country" feeling it' known for. In helping to preserve those interests, it is the mission of the North Shore Community Land Trust (NSCLT) to protect and steward the natural landscapes, cultural heritage, and rural character from Kahuku Point to Kaena. Recently, the group has contracted the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to facilitate the first TPL greenprint to be done in Hawaii. read more »
On this site where the nation's legendary African-American fighting force proved its valor in the Civil War, a housing development ignited a debate over the uses of history. read more »
State officials closed a $2.6 million deal with conservationist Roxanne Quimby on two parcels totaling 7,785 acres outside Millinocket and adjacent to Baxter State Park on Friday that they say will help turn the area into a multiuse recreational playground. read more »
With 4 1/2 riverfront acres secured by the Trust for Public Land's Parks for People project at her disposal, the more than 800 members of the Cleveland Rowing Foundation are aiming to get the Flats hopping again with kayaks, canoes and more. read more »
Two things struck me as I sat in the East Wing of the White House late yesterday afternoon, listening to President Obama release his America's Great Outdoors report. The first was that we have a president who truly understands, and is committed to, the responsibility he, and all of us, have to protect our nation's wonderful legacy of natural splendor. read more »
These students aren't deterred by a monumental task. A team of Kemps Landing Magnet School eighth-graders and the sixth-grade class at Cape Henry Collegiate School have a shared vision: to preserve the last 10 acres of land at Pleasure House Point through the sale of monument trees. read more »
