FLC Publications & News Releases
For 2014 & 2015 Publications, click here. 2013 Publications FLC Applauds Renewal of Conservation Tax Incentive (March 5, 2013) - FLC Release on CE Tax Enhancement FLC's 2013 Spring Newsletter & 2012 Annual Report - Click Here 2013 eNews - January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, [...]
FLC’s Schedule of Events
Upcoming 2015 Events For the latest event information, please sign up for FLC's eNews. It's located at the bottom of our Foothills' home page - Foothills Land Conservancy. Please note that FLC will not distribute your email address to any other organizations or businesses. ************* Sunday, October 18, 2015: Join [...]
Conservation Easement – Big Lost Creek (Polk County)
FLC is pleased to announce last week's conservation easement signing on a 648 acre tract in Polk County. Surrounded on all sides by the 640,000 acre Cherokee National Forest, this property offers ridge top views of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, including the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Tributaries on the [...]
Conservation Easement – Gilreath Property (Blount County)
Catherine Gilreath, a longtime Blount County resident and outdoors person/volunteer, recently decided to give back to her community in the form of a conservation easement. Her [...]
FLC Conservation Easement on Wallace Property (15 acres – Knox County)
Billy Wallace decided to partner with Foothills in 2011 in order to place his 15 acre tract in Halls under conservation easement. This is truly a unique piece of land that includes a blue hole (or underwater sinkhole) that is part cave and part spring. The property's spring feeds into [...]
Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge (Now Named: Seven Islands State Birding Park) – Knox County (FLC Conservation Easement on 26 acres)
In early 2010, FLC agreed to hold a conservation easement for the Legacy Parks Foundation on 26 acres in Knox County for the purpose of enlarging the Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge (SIWR) property. Since that time, the Legacy Parks Foundation has given this tract (that includes the easement) over to [...]
Foothills receives J.B. Owen award from KTOS!
Foothills Land Conservancy is honored to be the recipient of the J.B. Owen award by the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society (KTOS). The Award honors the memory of J.B. Owen, longtime Tennessee Ornithological Society (TOS) member known to thousands in East Tennessee through his columns in Knoxville newspapers. [...]
Bad Plants and What To Do About Them – Cheri Cordell
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Friends of the Smokies Purchases Land Adjacent to National Park (Sevier County)
*Reprinted with permission from Friends of the Smokies. KODAK, TN-SEPTEMBER 13, 2010- Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the successful bidder in a public auction of 20 acres of land surrounded on three sides by Great Smoky Mountains [...]
Tips on taming our region’s non-native vegetation…
by Kristine Johnson, Supervisory Forester - GSMNP Invasive exotic plants are among the most serious threats to natural areas and biodiversity worldwide. Foothills Land Conservancy supporters and neighbors find additional cause for concern as exotic plant invasions reduce real estate values, facilitate erosion, alter fire regimes, obscure planned landscapes and [...]