Celebrate! Critical tract of East Fork Headwaters has been purchased by Conservation Fund (see below)

Save the East Fork Headwaters

At over 8,000 acres, the East Fork Headwaters tract is the largest remaining privately-owned tract in western North Carolina, and possibly in the entire southern Appalachians.

It is the last opportunity we will have to acquire such a sizable and significant tract in the southern Appalachians for public ownership ever again.

The tract is bounded on its entire southern boundary by a corridor of tens of thousands of acres of publicly-protected land.

On the NC side, the tract sits mid-way between the 10,000- acre DuPont State Forest and the 7,500-acre Gorges State Park. The property's connection to large swaths of existing conserved land helps to create wildlife corridors crucial to species migration and long-term survival.

Learn more about the unique features of this beautiful property.

Critical tract of East Fork Headwaters has been purchased by Conservation Fund

The Conservation Fund today announced the $5.5 million purchase of a privately-owned 786-acre tract that represents the last, unprotected section of the storied Foothills Trail, which winds along the border between North and South Carolina.

The support of Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, a generous donation from Fred and Alice Stanback of Salisbury and a $1 million grant from the Carolina Water Management Trust Fund helped make this project possible.