[at-l] Smokies Gift

[janl2@mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

These Lamar fellow are alright
guys...

    Largest Private Donation in Smokies History
    December 24 2002



    Response to Alexander part of pact to retain Smokies natural area

    KNOXVILLE =97 More than 700 acres bordering the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park will remain natural and
    undeveloped thanks to a Christmas gift from the landowners.
    Lamar Alexander, Tennessee's new senator and former governor, and
several of his neighbors are giving away millions of
    dollars in development rights to preserve the forested tract.
    The gift, announced yesterday, is the largest private donation of its
kind, both in size and value, in Tennessee, said
    Randy Brown, executive director of the Foothills Land Conservancy.
    The conservation easement covers 769 acres between the Foothills Parkwa=
y
and the southwestern edge of the park,
    about 30 miles south of Knoxville. It will provide a development buffer
as much as two miles wide along two miles of the
    park's 70-mile border in Tennessee.
    The property will continue to be owned by Alexander and his associates,
but the right to subdivide it will be transferred
    to the Foothills Land Conservancy and The Conservation Fund.

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/12/26824560.shtml?Element_ID=3D=
26824560

    Foothills Land Conservancy
    http://www.foothillsland.org/


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