TennGreen Land Conservancy

TennGreen Land Conservancy
Formation1998; 26 years ago (1998)
TypeNonprofit
62-1557574
Legal status501(c)(3)
HeadquartersNashville, Tennessee
Board President
Mark Peacock
Executive Director
Alice Hudson Pell
Mark Peacock; Bob Sarratt; Charles Askew; Anne Davis; Matthew J. Mcclanahan; Ryan Bailey; Marcya A Carter-Sheats; Scott Bowman; Green Faircloth; John Fenderson; Jim Garages; Laurel Graefe; Christopher C. Haigler; Jacqueline Harp; Les Mcdonald; Christy Moberly; Nick Nunn; Alice Hudson Pell; Terrell Pickett; Bob Sarratt; Alan Webb; Melinda Welton;
Websitehttps://tenngreen.org/
Formerly called
Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation

TennGreen Land Conservancy, formerly the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation,[1] is a non-profit land trust, established in 1998 to protect natural and scenic land in Tennessee.[2] It is accredited by the Land Trust Alliance's Land Trust Accreditation Commission.[3][4] The foundation is supported by membership donations, individual philanthropy, and gifts of land from private landowners.

The foundation's mission is to conserve natural monuments such as waterfalls, bluffs and caves. Conservation of such features usually creates relatively small reserves that are not environmentally sustainable in isolation, so the foundation also aims to create corridors of conserved land to link these features and larger reserves (such as national parks and state parks), which are also called greenways.[5]

  1. ^ "TennGreen Land Conservancy - American Trails". www.americantrails.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  2. ^ "TennGreen - Land Trust - Protecting Tennessee's natural treasures". tenngreen.org. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Nearly Three Dozen More Land Trusts Achieve Accreditation". landtrustalliance.org. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Accredited Land Trusts" (PDF). Land Trust Accreditation Commission. 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  5. ^ Williams, Kathleen (24 May 2016). "Tennessee needs greater emphasis on conservation". The Tennessean. Retrieved 16 February 2017.