- Plotting the Community Conservation Plan
With your help, the Freshwater Land Trust is Mapping the Places that Matter. Our creation of a Community Conservation Plan has identified important areas where our conservation efforts will be focused during the coming decade.
Mapping the Places That Matter is the first step towards preserving the places that matter, and it will create significant environmental, social, health and economic impacts that will positively affect our region for years to come. The Community Conservation Plan has the potential to dramatically and positively impact the landscape of North Central Alabama.
We thank the hundreds of people who attended one of the many input meetings held during late summer and fall of 2009 throughout Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Tuscaloosa, Blount, Bibb, and Walker counties. Your valuable input was incorporated directly into the Community Conservation Plan.
Now, we are creating an engaging summary to describe these incredibly important areas that need protection, right where we live. We look forward to releasing this plan in the spring of 2010; please watch our website for more information, and be sure to receive the latest information by giving us your email address (on this page).
The Community Conservation Plan takes into account the Freshwater Land Trust’s core mission of water quality enhancement through land conservation and the interests of protecting biological diversity, protection of open space for public recreation, the expansion and connection to existing conservation areas, and the protection of important archeological, historical, cultural and scientific resources. Like any successful conservation plan, the Community Conservation Plan was informed by a broad range of different partners (over 400 organizations were represented) including other conservation groups, the general public, academic institutions, local government and planning agencies, and many others.
This plan will serve not only the Land Trust, but any other entity who seeks to conserve those areas that we can and must protect. This plan may serve the Land Trust by helping us achieve our mission, but it is the entire population in the eight-county area that will benefit as this land conservation plan is implemented.
Mapping the Places That Matter is made possible through generous funding from the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Power Company, the Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, the Land Trust Alliance, and Vulcan Materials Company.