More than 10,000 acres of longleaf pine forest across Alabama and Georgia will now be protected, after an environmental advocacy group was able to purchase and turn the land over to the states.
“This project is a rare opportunity to permanently protect a landscape that is both biologically rich and increasingly threatened by development,” said Stacy Funderburke, vice president of the central Southeast region at The Conservation Fund, in a news release.
On Monday, the Conservation Fund, an environmental nonprofit, announced it had completed the Stateline Forest project, transferring tracts of land that straddle the Alabama/Georgia state border to each state government for preservation…