More than 2,100 acres across seven counties in South Carolina and North Carolina were permanently protected through conservation easements by Upstate Forever in the closing months of 2025, the Greenville-based conservation group announced Feb. 19.
Working with a variety of funding partners and property owners in Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens and Spartanburg counties in South Carolina and Polk County, North Carolina, nine new and amended conservation easements were secured on working agricultural lands along with forested and mixed-landscape properties…