In 2010, TPL, together with the U.S. Forest Service, protected Bear
Creek Ranch, one of the largest inholdings in Gila National Forest.
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In January, 1863, U.S. volunteer soldiers attacked the winter camp of the
Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation, slaughtering as many as 350 men,
women, and children in what is believed to be the largest massacre of
Native American people in U.S. history.
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In the 19th century, Asheville's boys and girls went to separate schools on opposite sides of town. Local storytellers say that mountain trails circling the city offered quiet places for young couples to meet, and thus Beaucatcher Mountain got its name.
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Coastal Beaufort County is South Carolina's fastest-growing county and home to Hilton Head Island, a popular resort and retirement community. In 2000, voters passed, with TPL's help, a $40 million bond referendum to protect natural areas, historic sites, and recreation lands.
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For over six years, TPL worked in collaboration with the city of Oakland and the Friends of Bella Vista Park to transform this bleak asphalt playground into a beautiful green park.
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TPL preserved a 10-acre property at the entrance of Bellwood Quarry, which will be a new 300-acre park along Atlanta's Beltline.
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The Trust for Public Land protected the 515-acre Belt Farm, which features the last stand of virgin hardwood forest on the Atlantic coastal plain.
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Until recently, West Oakland's Bertha Port Park featured only a quarter-acre sandy lot, a single tree, and a forlorn blue statue of a dolphin.
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Stressed by vacation development, the Town of Bethany asked TPL to help protect the last large open space in town—one of the last places available for wildlife viewing and habitat protection.
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At the Betsy Ross Elementary School, in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood, officials had assembled all but a single lot for a new park, when they called on TPL for help with the complex final transaction.
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