Nature Conservancy buys land in north Georgia
A conservation group has bought 299 acres of Georgia mountain land along the Etowah River and five streams in Lumpkin County GA.
Candance Stoughton is the Etowah River project manager for the Nature Conservancy. She says the Georgia Department of Transportation plans to use the land for a mitigation bank. That’s property on which a builder can restore stream banks or wetlands to compensate for damage it does elsewhere. The conservancy plans to buy an addtional 180 acres nearby that could be used for the same purpose. The land is surrounded by the Chattahooche National Forest in an area that is deemed a high priority conservation area. The Etowah River is part of the Coosa River basin — one of the richest in the United States because of the variety of land it contains.
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