East Fork Headwaters Project

GRANT NAME:
East Fork Headwaters Project
GRANTEE:
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
LOCATION
Hendersonville, NC
AMOUNT
$30,000
Year
2012

To permanently protect 8,000 acres of the Blue Ridge Escarpment and 50 miles of headwaters streams of the French Broad River through the creation of a Southern Appalachian National Wildlife Refuge, establishing a contiguous chain of 1,000,000 acres of publicly accessible wilderness.