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Snowbirds Mountain Landscape Conserved

Mainspring Conservation Trust, with Open Space Institute as a partner, successfully purchased Snowbird Mountains Landscape in Western North Carolina. Appalachia Rising helped to fund this project.

Appalachia Rising contributed to the Mainspring Conservation Trust, partnering with the Open Space Institute, effort to conserve 4,400 acres in Western North Carolina. Read about the victory here.

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First Community Park Opens in Asheville, NC

Read about the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy’s creation of the first community park in Asheville, North Carolina.

The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy closed on the purchase of Deaverview Mountain, a 342-acre mountain that represents the first public park in Asheville. Appalachia Rising contributed to this ecological and community victory. Read about it here.

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