April 2003
Contents

Message From the Executive Director:
* The Upstate as the next regional city

Conservation:
* Couple preserves land along highway 11
* Northern Greenville county tract preserved
* UF members donate land adjoining
Jocassee Gorges to State
* Conservation Bank Act signed into law!

Articles:
* The Upstate is being developed at the rate of a new Haywood Mall every three days!!
* Downtown Schools: a key step toward sensible growth
* Downtown schools in the Upstate
good news and bad news
* Can Stories Save a River?
Bringing Lawson's Fork back to life
* Main Street: Heart and soul of the Upstate
* Victory for streams in the Upstate!

Upstate Forever News:
* Events
* Awards
* Volunteers
* Staff

NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY TRACT PRESERVED

Timberlands, LLC has granted to Upstate Forever a conservation easement on a 214-acre tract at the Cliffs Valley development in northern Greenville County. The easement permanently prohibits any development or subdivision of the property and allows only passive, nature-based activities.
     Although the property is located within the Cliffs development, it has public significance for several reasons: It can be seen from Highway 25. It adjoins on the east the magnificent watershed lands of the Poinsett Reservoir, which are also protected by a conservation easement, and on the west it is adjacent to a 70-acre tract owned by Naturaland Trust, a nonprofit conservation organization. The property also provides habitat for dwarf heartleaf, a federally endangered plant.