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chapelhillnews.com <br />0 <br />%.,hipel Hm"'News <br />A close whidow R1 <br />Published: Sep 29, 2010 02:00 AM <br />Modified: Sep 27, 2010 11:14 PM <br />Sale to preserve forest <br />HILLSBOROUGH - The Triangle <br />Land Conservancy has purchased <br />Brumley Forest, the second - <br />Story Tools <br />largest remaining undeveloped <br />._: Printer Friendly M Email to a Friend <br />parcel in Orange County. <br />eR Enlarge Font AR Decrease Font <br />no del.icio.us Digg it <br />Less than 20 years ago, the 613 - <br />acre forest was being considered <br />More News <br />for a major planned community <br />• No time for complacency <br />development. The property will <br />• Pets need teeth cleaned <br />become one of the conservancy's <br />• AGENDAs <br />newest public nature preserves. <br />■ Hillsborough names new chief of police <br />• Carolina North incubator abandoned <br />The conservancy purchased the <br />Advertisements <br />property for just over $4 million - <br />less than half the appraised value <br />Most Popular <br />- through a bargain sale price <br />from the seller, The Zeist <br />Foundation, as well as backbone <br />• Stories <br />funding from the N.C. Clean <br />• Emailed <br />Water Management Trust Fund; <br />City of Raleigh's Upper Neuse <br />Last 24 Hours <br />Clean Water Initiative; and the <br />Pearson Stewart Land <br />Opportunity Fund established <br />• Chapel Hill's Greenbridge edifice a 'game - <br />though TLC's recent Our Water, <br />changer' <br />Our Land capital campaign. <br />• Town employees protest treatment <br />• Friends rally for farmer after fall <br />George and Julia Brumley of <br />• Ribbon cut at Greenbridge <br />Chapel Hill had owned the land <br />• Finding pets, and saving them <br />since the late 1980s. George <br />Brumley III was a conservancy <br />Last 7 Days <br />board member in 2003 when a <br />plane carrying him and Julia, <br />their two children and several <br />• Chapel Hill workers speak out against town probe <br />other family members crashed <br />• Chapel Hill's Greenbridge edifice a 'game - <br />into a mountainside in Kenya, <br />changer' <br />killing all on board. <br />• Town employees protest treatment <br />• Sale to preserve forest <br />After their deaths, the land was <br />• Friends rally for farmer after fall <br />passed to The Zeist Foundation, <br />an Atlanta -based family <br />foundation started by George <br />Last 24 Hours <br />Brumley's father. <br />1. Finding pets, and saving them <br />Conservation of Brumley Forest <br />benefits the public in three ways, <br />Last 7 Days <br />according to the conservancy: by <br />protecting wildlife habitat, <br />1. Sale to preserve forest <br />connecting people with nature <br />and, most importantly, by <br />2. Grandmothers' blessing <br />safeguarding clean water. <br />3. Finding pets, and saving them <br />4. Town employees protest treatment <br />http:// www. chapelhillnews .com/2010 <br />/09/29/v- print/59810 /sale -to- preserve - forest.html 10/5/2010 <br />