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Cliffs gives $10K for Blue Ridge Parkway protection

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
The Asheville Citizen-Times is reporting today that Cliffs Communities has recently donated $10,000 to help protect views along the Blue Ridge Parkway on a 48-acre tract of land located on the borders of Surry and Allegheny counties.

The gift was made to the Blue Ridge Forever Coalition which will give a boost to the agency's five-year campaign to protect 50,000 acres in Western North Carolina by the end of 2010.

The Cliffs' donation was a contribution to the $125,000 Roaring Forks Headwaters project, which will preserve land adjacent to the parkway that contains the headwaters of the Fisher River.

The Conservation Trust for North Carolina, one of 10 land trusts that partners with Blue Ridge Forever, bought the Roaring Forks tract from a Georgia man who agreed to sell it at a steep discount to ensure it would be protected.

The Cliffs' gift will help make it possible for CTNC to transfer the property to the National Park Service.

The property is near the 3,400-acre Saddle Mountain Wilderness Area and Cumberland Knob National Recreation Area. It adjoins the parkway by connecting with a 201-acre property that was protected by CTNC in 2007.


Jeff
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