Result

Preserving our Blue Ridge landscape

From Chimney Rock State Park, To Grandfather Mountain, some of North Carolina's most treasured landscapes are better protected, thanks to a total funding increase of nearly $200 million for conservation programs that Environment North Carolina helped win in 2007 and 2008.

Result

Protecting our Blue Ridge Scenery

Our 2010 report, Unfulfilled Promise:  The Million Acre Initiative and the Need to Preserve North Carolina’s Open Spaces, found that while the state preserved a number of important landscapes over the last ten years-- including Grandfather Mountain State Park, Chimney Rock, and tens of thousands of acres of game land in Eastern North Carolina--it fell far short of the million-acre mark, protecting just over 640,000 acres of forests, farmlands, and other open spaces.