Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina transfers land to McDowell County for Fonta Flora State Trail and Marion Catawba River Greenway.

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina permanently protects 10-acre property along Thunderhole Creek in Caldwell County.

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina permanently protects 326 acres of the Johns River headwaters and iconic viewshed in Blowing Rock.

Foothills Conservancy of NC surpasses 70,000 acres of permanent land protection with its most recent conservation acquisition in the South Mountains. On December 29, 2023, Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina (FCNC) acquired 1,460 acres in the Pinnacle Mountains, a section of the South Mountains in McDowell and Rutherford counties. With this conservation transaction, FCNC has permanently protected 70,193 acres of land in the foothills and Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina since its founding in 1995.

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina protects 443-acre property in Burke County, creating a conservation corridor in the headwaters of the Henry Fork River

Foothills Conservancy prepares to open Oak Hill Community Park and Forest to the public on October 14, 2023.

Thanks to a challenge gift of $50,000, all donations to Foothills Conservancy of NC will be doubled during the 2023 Summer Appeal.

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina welcomes new Marketing and Communications Manager, Katherine Ehrlichman.

Foothills Conservancy is preparing to host 250 supporters of the land trust’s conservation mission at its annual Flavors of the Foothills food-festival fundraiser on May 20, at Fonta Flora Brewery Whippoorwill Farm, presented by the Chip and Debi Hills Foundation.

On April 27, Foothills Conservancy of and Blue Ridge Conservancy completed the permanent protection of a 1,125-acre property that spans Wilkes, Alexander and Iredell Counties.

Earlier this month, Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina announced the transfer of 130 acres in McDowell County to the U.S. Forest Service’s Pisgah National Forest.

Foothills Conservancy announced the permanent protection of three conservation easements transferred from Duke Energy, totaling 130 acres of permanent stream protection buffer along the Catawba River and its tributaries below the dams at Lake James.

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina welcomed Annette Henson as the new Office & Finance Administrator. In this role, Henson will manage Foothills Conservancy’s accounting, financial bookkeeping and office management needs.

Foothills Conservancy of NC announced significant progress toward the purchase and permanent protection of a 332-acre parcel of land in Blowing Rock, NC, that contains the headwaters of the Johns River and is part of an iconic view seen from The Blowing Rock attraction, U.S. 321 and other locations within the town limits of Blowing Rock.

On November 4, Foothills Conservancy acquired 93 acres along one-and-a-half miles of Wilson Creek, a nationally-designated Wild and Scenic River in Caldwell County, from Duke Energy, and subsequently recorded a conservation easement held by the North Carolina Land and Water Fund to permanently protect the land and water resources.

Foothills Conservancy transferred 130 acres of conserved land along the Jacob Fork River in Catawba County to North Carolina Division of Parks & Recreation, to be permanently protected as publicly-owned land for future access and recreation in association with the Wilderness Gateway State Trail.

On October 6, the Finley Gwyn Harper, Sr. family heirs and C.V. Henkel, Jr. family heirs, including twelve property owners and their families – a number totaling over 50 family members – donated their property, named Cherry Tree Hollow and located in Blowing Rock above the Blue Ridge escarpment, to Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina for permanent protection.