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Saving Places for Atlanta’s Community Environments
(SPACE), GLT’s conservation program for metro Atlanta,
works to protect the natural qualities that make Atlanta such a desirable place
to live. We accomplish by providing landowners with such land conservation
options as conservation
easements; land donation/sale and remainder trusts; collaboration with local,
city and state governments and other non-profits; and financial assistance to
neighborhood groups.
CONSERVATION EASEMENTS
SPACE’s first easement,
achieved through the combined efforts of Jim and Sally Morgens (former and
current board members)
and the rest of the Wolf Creek residents, resulted in the protection of a
one-acre woodland now aptly named Wolf Creek Park. That protection effort
resulted in the creation of SPACE, which subsequently merged with the Georgia
Land Trust.
In
2002, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) donated a conservation easement on 3.5 acres of
urban woodland along Riverly Road in Fulton County. The easement prevents future
infill construction and provides a green buffer to adjacent developed parcels.
It is heavily forested with mixed hardwoods and pines and supports many wildlife
species including barred owls.
SPACE
also holds a conservation easement on 25 acres of woodlands off Camp Creek
Parkway, just outside the Atlanta city limits. The woods are home to a great
variety of bird and upland animal species. Atlanta Audubon and the State
wildlife/botanical agencies have certified the property for its high wildlife
and botanical values. The grantor obtained the property through family
inheritance and the use of a conservation easement
saved this property from condemnation and clear cutting.
Several other easements held by SPACE permanently protect streams, wetlands, and
contiguous forest within the urban community. Some of the last remaining large
tracts of land inside the perimeter are found in the Wolf Creek
and Nancy Creek watershed and will be a high priority in SPACE’s
future protection efforts.
 Barred Owls find
refuge in
Riverly
Road
land protected
by easement and
donated by
TNC to
SPACE
James Coe, www.jamescoe.com |
