Formation | 1998 |
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Type | Nonprofit |
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Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
Headquarters | Nashville, 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; | |
Website | https://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]