Southern Conservation Trust

Southern Conservation Trust, Inc. (the Trust), founded in 1993, is a nonprofit land trust with offices in Peachtree City, Georgia. We focus on protecting land in the Southern Crescent of Metro Atlanta: the counties of Fayette, Coweta, Clayton and rural South Fulton and in the Upper Flint River basin.

Our Mission: to protect, maintain, and enhance, for public use, natural areas entrusted to our care and to provide environmental education, wildlife habitat interpretation, and passive recreation opportunities.

The Trust currently owns, manages and protects approximately 1,000 acres of environmentally unique lands – an increase of 300 acres from 2005. Several of our Nature Areas are open to the public where we provide educational programs on nature and offer hiking trails. The Trust is currently evaluating the creation of public trails on 60 acres of recently-donated forest near the Flint River and 100 acres on Whitewater Creek.

In 2006 three landowners placed conservation easements on their properties, allowing the Trust to permanently limit development and protect natural resources on their land. The Trust continues to manage the Flat Creek and Line Creek Nature Areas and also owns Sams Lake Preserve in Fayette County. With the U.S. Congress and the Georgia legislature’s recent approval of increased tax benefits for those who donate land or an easement to a land trust, Southern Conservation expects to further increase its acreage of protected greenspace in 2007.

For more information on donating land or a conservation easement to the Trust, and the tax benefits available, please click here.