 The Southeast Regional Land Conservancy now protects a total of twenty-nine projects with cumulative acreage of 6,631 acres. Of the projects, six are in Alabama, eleven in Georgia, ten in North Carolina, one in South Carolina, and one in Tennessee. In 2009 we added two projects in Georgia and one in North Carolina, as well as giving additional protected acreage to three existing projects. The total for the year was 1,368 acres.
Easement land types have been divided into eleven classifications categories (please see the pie chart also). Acreages below are given as approximations and have not been digitized. Ridge and Valley, forested land: 431 acres; Ridge and Valley, open land: 124 acres; Mountain, forested land: 1,376 acres; Mountain, open land: 15 acres; Stream corridor: 88 acres (actually a greater amount but often included within forested or open land); Piedmont, forested land: 1013 acres; Piedmont, open land: 556 acres; Coastal, open land: 541 acres; Coastal, forested land: 1743 acres; Wetlands: 691 acres; Open water area was added to a number of easements but is not counted as acreage.
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