Classic TPL History
In this year, singer-songwriter Don McLean had a hit song, “American Pie”, the Dow Jones closed above 1,000 for the first time in history, and a visionary named Huey Johnson (at the top of the picture) from the Nature Conservancy and colleague Greg Archbald (at the top right), one of the first California attorneys focused on using real property law in land conservation, created The Trust for Public Land.
What is 1972?
Working with the largest private landowner in the country, Plum Creek, The Trust for Public Land was a leader in the effort to protect much of the Swan Valley, the most intact biological ecosystem remaining in the lower 48- such a large project that it’s named after a whole state!
What is the Montana Legacy Project?
The Trust for Public Land partnered with corporations, foundations and local park districts to install these outdoor exercise areas fitted with isometric workout gear in over 100 existing parks to date nationally.
What are Fitness Zones?
In 2018, county voters approved a $65 million referendum, led by TPL’s Conservation Finance team, to purchase and construct this TPL project.
What is CSX Sarasota (Extension Phase II)?
This former Scripto pen factory was purchased by The Trust for Public Land in the early 1990’s as an anchor property for a national historic site in Atlanta that is dedicated in memory of this slain civil rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This person is the longest running current employee at The Trust for Public Land, and is our lead attorney for the state of California, helping close hundreds of lands deals totaling over 46,000 acres since December of 1989.
Who is Tily Shue?
The Trust for Public Land has protected over 140 properties, and we are currently working on another 9, within a half mile of this 2,190 mile long footpath that runs from Georgia to Maine and is visited by several million hikers each year.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
This park in Washington state started as a former waterfront oil tank farm until it was purchased by TPL and turned into a world class park.
What is Olympic/Seattle Sculpture Park?
The Trust for Public Land worked for over a quarter century protecting this popular outdoor destination for residents of the Northwest, ensuring access and enjoyment of this site for scenery and recreation, including world class windsurfing, for generations to come.
What is Columbia River Gorge?
The Trust for Public Land hired a private investigator to track down the final (11th) heir so that we could permanently protect “one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean”, and add pristine Maho Bay to this National Park.
What is the Virgin Islands National Park?
This mountain, local to the California Bay Area, was featured as The Trust for Public Land’s first logo.
What is Mount Tamalpais?
Working for over 20 years in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, this Trust for Public Land Initiative was catalyzed by the donation of Forest Lodge to the USFS, and includes thousands of wild rivers, and lakes – all in a days’ drive of more than 40 million people.
What is the Northwoods Initiative?
The 2019 Fall/Winter issue of Land and People featured Liz Thomas through-hiking projects in this program that has tapped thousands of kids and the communities that surround their schools, to create critical outdoor spaces.
What is the NY City Playgrounds Program?
In 2003, The Trust for Public Land protected almost 4% of the entire state of New Hampshire through conserving 171,000 acres - almost the entire watershed of the four lakes that form the Connecticut River’s headwaters, and is our largest project to date east of the Mississippi.
What is Connecticut Lake Headwaters?
The wife of the first Superintendent at this iconic National Park in Montana ran a bootleg whiskey operation, on land The Trust for Public Land protected in 2012, protecting the history, and an important stopover for rafters on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River.
What is Glacier National Park?
Known for his 1949 classic writings where he proposed a “land ethic” -- that land should be considered as part of a larger community to which all creatures, including people, belong -- this author and conservationist provided inspiration for many employees and volunteers of Trust for Public Land over our 48 year history.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
Home to an early and prominent American writer, these woods located in Massachusetts were protected by The Trust for Public Land in 1995, ensuring Thoreau’s legacy continues to foster an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
What is Walden Woods?
This project, with an area code as its name, converted a former rail trial that traditionally divided neighborhoods, and has now reconnected them, also had over 50,000 people attend the opening celebration.
What is the 606 Trail?
With the Trust for Public Land’s help, this city in Tennessee has become the poster child for the transformative effect of waterfront greenways, helping to make that city the envy of the South for its thriving economy based on quality of life and easy access to open space.
What is Chattanooga?
The Monroe schoolhouse in Topeka, Kansas – now a national historic site protected by The Trust for Public Land in 1993 - was the subject of this US Supreme Court case declaring separate schools for black and white children to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
How many land protection projects, how many acres, and what is the fair market value of the land that TPL has protected in its 48 year history?
Projects: 4683
Acres: 3.781M
FMV: $8.650M
The Trust for Public Land bought this 6,200 acre Central California Coast property in 1998 and worked for many years to protect over 5 miles of California’s incredible coastline, and ensuring the future of a farming legacy.
What is Coast Dairies?
Most of the kids that live nearby to this park in Denver are refugees from war torn nations like Afghanistan, Burma, and Nepal. They united with The Trust for Public Land to transform a vacant lot into a vibrant gathering place for sports, a playground, and gardening.
What is New Freedom Park?
Named after twin sisters, this project in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area permanently protected a critical entry point, ensuring access for thousands of people annually.
What is Chainsaw Sisters Project?
The Trust for Public Land secured a vacant lot in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, that is now the visitor center and entryway to this national historic site that marks the start of America’s Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter National Historic Site?