Thank you for voting yes for City Charter Amendment 2!
City parks and conservation lands will not be on a “Registry of Protected Public Places”
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Migratory Bird Habitat Conserved on Two Alachua County Prairies
In October and December, the US Fish and Wildlife Service provided grants totaling $1 million to Alachua Conservation Trust to protect two wet prairies.
ACT Seeks Land Trust Accreditation
This year, Alachua Conservation Trust is seeking to be accredited by the national Land Trust Accreditation Commission (LTAC), and you can participate. The LTAC is soliciting comments related to ACT’s compliance with the national standards.
Wild Spaces & Public Places - It passed! Thank you!
Wild Spaces & Public Places is a citizen’s initiated referendum for a half-cent sales tax, limited to two years, that will fund environmental lands purchases and park and recreational improvements. Visit the Wild Spaces & Public Places website
Planners Recognize ACT as “Outstanding”
Alachua Conservation Trust has been recognized as Florida’s “Outstanding Public Interest Group” by the American Planning Association’s state chapter.
Our next big project: 20 mile rail-trail and Santa Fe River Preserve
The proposed trail meanders through small-town Florida, and the preserve will protect more than 550 acres along the scenic Santa Fe River.
Historic Rochelle Church
Given by our ancestors, saved for our descendants...
Benefit at the Hippodrome Theater has passed, but we’re still raising money!
City of Gainesville Acquires Hogtown Creek Headwaters Nature Park with Major Gift
The City of Gainesville will soon have a new nature park, made possible through a grant of $3.6 million to the City from Florida Communities Trust. The landowner, Home
Depot, also made the park possible though a bargain sale of the land and the creation of a trust fund earmarked for park improvements.The grant proposal, real estate transaction and gift agreement were negotiated by Alachua Conservation Trust, Inc., a local land trust.
ACT’s list of projects reads like the history of this place
with native and pioneer names like Tuscawilla, Phifer, Lochloosa, Serenola, Haile, Hartzog, Saarinen, Yankeetown, and of course, Pithlachochoo.
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