The board of the South Cumberland Regional Land Trust (SCRLT) announced at its annual meeting on Sept. 14 that a gift of 95 acres of contiguous conserved land will be donated to the Trust later this year. The property, known as the Ravens Den Sanctuary, has been protected since 2007 by a conservation easement held by the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation.
In 1993, the current landowners began purchasing the property with the intention of forming a land trust to protect it.
“Over the past 20 years, we have developed a relationship with the SCRLT and Jumpoff Community Land Trust and decided that this would be an excellent partnership” said Kathleen O’Donohue, one of the six land-owners.
“With the help of the Jumpoff Community Land Trust and another land trust community, we have created a lease that will allow us to live on the property and protect it for generations to come,” she said.
The landowner donors are Barbara Parks, Carol Graham, Kathleen O’Donohue, Nancy Finley, Rose Norman and Susan Gorrell.
For more information about the land trusts, go to <http://www.scrlt.org/> and <http://www.tenngreen.org/website/>.
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