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TLC President's MessageTLC’s Our Water, Our Land Campaign: Strengthening Connections to NatureNovember 2009 Dear Friends, News of expanding Triangle Land Conservancy’s Flower Hill Nature Preserve conjures up memories of our early years. In 1989 the Middlesex community and Johnston County rallied to raise money to purchase 10 acres at the heart of the Flower Hill natural area. Flower Hill is one of North Carolina’s botanical gems and for decades has been the destination for thousands of Johnstonians who come every year in early May to witness Catawba rhododendron blooming on the edge of North Carolina’s coastal plain. It is considered to be North Carolina's easternmost naturally occurring stand of Catawba rhododendron, growing far from its normal mountain range. I am very excited about recent efforts to nearly double the number of acres permanently conserved at Flower Hill and the installation of a small parking area, which was desperately needed for visitors to avoid dodging fast-moving cars as they parked on the shoulder of NC 231. Support from many of the 1989 Flower Hill donors—as well as generous gifts from Johnston County, Martin Marietta Materials and Walmart— through TLC’s Our Water, Our Land Campaign made possible the recent Flower Hill land purchase and parking area construction. Flower Hill’s master plan figures prominently in the Our Water, Our Land Campaign, as do TLC’s Swift Creek Bluffs (Wake), Horton Grove (Durham), Johnston Mill (Orange) and White Pines (Chatham/Lee) nature preserves. With your support through this campaign, we are creating ambitious master plans for all of TLC’s nature preserves that are open to the public. These long-term plans will guide some of TLC’s conservation work by expanding existing public-accessible nature preserves—and adding new ones. Of course, all additional acquisitions will come by working with landowners who voluntarily choose to sell or donate land and conservation easements to TLC. We do this for two reasons: to forever conserve some of North Carolina’s most beautiful places and to give you the opportunity to explore them. With your support of Triangle Land Conservancy and its Our Water, Our Land Campaign, you will enable TLC to strengthen our community’s connection to nature. Kevin Brice, President and CEO, Triangle Land Conservancy
TLC President's Message Archive
November 2009 TLC’s Our Water, Our Land Campaign: Strengthening Connections to Nature
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