Foothills Conservancy 2011 Annual Summer Fund Challenge amid Major Budget Cuts

Double Your Gift's Impact and Protect the Blue Ridge Mountains & Foothills

Start your summer by helping Foothills Conservancy protect the places you love across the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills during our 2011 Summer Annual Fund Challenge! Make your special gift by August 31 on-line at www.foothillsconservancy.org or by check to FCNC, PO Box 3023, Morganton, NC 28680, and you will double your impact and help conserve our beautiful region’s natural landscapes, abundant waters, fertile farms and forest lands.

Generous donors have pledged to match your gifts to help us reach our $25,000 Summer Challenge goal! Be a part of the vision to connect people-visitors and area residents, adults and children-to nature and history at spectacular places like Wilson Creek, Catawba Falls and Chimney Rock; scenic byways like th Blue Ridge Parkway and Linville Gorge's Pisgah Loop; farming communities like Happy Valley; rivers like the Johns, Jacob Fork, First Broad and Yadkin; and trails like the Revoluntionary War's historic Overmountain Victory Trail.  Donate Now!

Due to state budget cuts your gifts to the Annual Summer Fund Challenge are even more important this year for conservation work in your backyard.

2011-2012 NC State Budget cuts are as follows:
Clean Water Management Trust Fund REDUCED to $11.25 million (from $50 million this year)
Parks and Recreation Trust Fund REDUCED by $8.45 million
Natural Heritage Trust Fund REDUCED by $8 million
Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund REDUCED by 15 percent to $1.7 million

Even though these important trust funds were cut, we want to thank everyone who made calls on behalf of conservation in North Carolina.