It starts at the community level. We partner with local advocates and leaders to build parks, protect lands, and preserve history that will benefit all Georgians and the natural environment. We believe that nature-based solutions—such as adding trees in hot areas, designing parks that capture stormwater, and protecting green spaces from development—are essential to helping communities connect to the outdoors while becoming more resilient to extreme weather events.
Now that you know a bit about how we do what we do, test your knowledge of TPL’s work right here in Georgia.
TRUE or FALSE: TPL Helps Prevent Floods with Parks in Georgia

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GA – Cook Park Ribbon Cutting

Earlier and longer hurricane seasons, stronger tropical storms, and more flash flooding are creating devastating storms that many communities—especially those in low-income or minority neighborhoods—are not equipped to handle.

TRUE or FALSE: TPL Preserves Black History in Georgia

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The birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. (center) at the Martin Luther King Jr., Historical Park in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 2, 2022.

The fact that only 3 percent of nearly 100,000 national historic sites tell the story of Black Americans is the result of systemic racism. In the United States, our approach to identifying, preserving, and interpreting historic places has not reflected our country’s complicated racial—and racist—past or present.

TRUE or FALSE: TPL Transforms Schoolyards in Georgia

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Design session with students from Stonewall Tell for their Community Schoolyard project.

For children and families, easy access to a safe and welcoming place to play can make a life-changing difference. Unfortunately, public health is too often determined by zip code. But if all schoolyards were opened to the community after hours, millions more people would have access to a new park within a 10-minute walk of home.

TRUE or FALSE: TPL Protects Cherished Waterways in Georgia

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Kayaking along the Chattahoochee Riverlands in Georgia on August 14, 2021.

Waterways are the lifeblood of our planet. Investing in their improvement and protection can unlock equitable access to nature and outdoor recreation for millions while providing cleaner drinking water, improving flood control, and conserving wildlife habitat.


TRUE OR FALSE: TPL Owns and Manages Public Lands in Georgia

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Cumberland Island National Seashore, Cumberland Island is Georgia's largest and southernmost barrier island off the coast of Georgia. Cumberland Island National Seashore., 2008, GA, Cumberland Island, Natural Lands, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Coastal, Courtesy of backgroundpictures.org

By 2050, we could lose 23 million acres of forest to development, logging, and fires—enough to cover the entire state of Indiana. And there’s much at stake if we lose our outdoor spaces—protected lands help promote clean air and water, bolster job creation and outdoor economies, safeguard our future from climate change, and so much more.