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COMMON GROUND VOL. 14 N0. 1 JANUARY-MARCH 2O03 • O2 10= 0 Fund Protects, from page 1 seven national forests, and state, corporate servation Fund purchased the land from an and private lands while providing a wildlife institutional forest investment fund advised corridor for elk, grizzly bear and big horn by UBS Timber Investors . sheep . "Ronald Strickland ' s extraordinary Ronald vision, passion and leadership created a ® The Conservation Fund has partnered national treasure for this and future genera- StrZClCland 'S with the Vermont Land Trust to protect a tions, " said Jessica Catto , president of the extraordinary 113-acre terraced forest in the northeastern Catto Foundation . The award, administered vision , passion and part of the state . Brunswick Springs, a by The Conservation Fund, was presented seasonal settlement and burial ground for Oct. 28 during the Land Trust Alliance' s leadership created Native Americans, sits atop a 150400t bluff Rally in Austin, Texas . The award is the a national treasure above the Connecticut River in Essex largest given to honor individual volunteer for this and future County. The Abenaki tribe sold a conserva- accomplishments in land conservation. tion easement on the land to the Fund to en- generations . sure its long-term protection. The easement ® Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn .) and his Jessica Catto will be held by the trust. Native Americans neighbors have donated an easement on 769 and 19th century spa visitors have used wa- acres in Blount County to protect two miles ters from the springs for healing . of the boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Conservation Fund and ® A 17-year effort to connect the Pinhoti the Foothills Land Conservancy will hold Trail in Alabama to the Appalachian Trail the easement, thought to be the largest in (AT) has reached a milestone with the state history from private parties . The land completion of the 100-mile trail from the is part of Blackberry Farm, which in 1986 Talladega National Forest to the Georgia hosted the organizational meeting of the state line . Michael Leonard, founder of the President' s Commission on Americans Out- Alabama Trails Association who has long doors , which Alexander chaired . Fund board sought to link the trails, said that only a members who first met at the meeting were 25-mile gap in Georgia remains . The Con- Gilbert Grosvenor, chairman of the National servation Fund has helped acquire land for Geographic Society; Charles Jordan, director the Alabama trail and continues efforts with of Portland (Ore . ) Parks and Recreation; and the Georgia Pinhoti Trail Association to Patrick Noonan, the Fund ' s chairman. Gift complete the Georgia section . Leonard of the easement is an outgrowth of a conser- serves on the Fund's National Council . vation master plan created by the Fund ' s Center for Conservation and Development . ® The Conservation Fund welcomes six Designed by Douglas Horne, director of the Gift of the members to its advisory councils . George Fund ' s Land Advisory Services, the plan is a easement is an Mead, former chairman of Consolidated national model for environmentally based outgrowth of Papers; and Barry Perry, chairman and chief limited development. executive of Engelhard Corp . , joined the conservation Fund ' s Corporate Council . National Council ® A 15-acre site that the Richard King master plan members include Barbara Brunckhorst, Mellon Foundation donated to the state of created by the founder of the Brunckhorst Foundation; Montana has yielded evidence that Lewis Susan Feith, executive director of the Mead and Clark camped there in the early 1800s . Fund 's Center for Witter Foundation; Robert Marston, presi- The site is the core holding of the new Trav- Conservation and dent of Robert Marston and Associates; and elers' Rest State Park, managed by the Trav- Development . Leonard Silverstein, co-founder of the elers' Rest Preservation and Heritage Asso- Silverstein and Mullens law firm. ciation ( travelersrest. org) . Last summer, ar- chaeologists found what appeared to be a la- ® The Catto Charitable Foundation has trine by finding high concentrations of mer- awarded the architect of the 1,200-mile cury in a trench. The researchers had theo- Pacific Northwest Trail with the American rized correctly that the latrine would contain Land Conservation Award and the accom- traces of mercury from Dr . Rush' s Thunder- panying $50,000 grant . Ronald Strickland bolts, a medicine used by the explorers . Ar- of Seattle, Wash. , has spent three decades chaeologists also found a fire hearth, lead working with business and government to musket balls and congealed pools of lead develop the trail, which parallels the U . S . - where the ammunition was evidently made . Canada border from Olympic National Park The Conservation Fund has assisted in pro- in Washington to Glacier National Park in tecting 11 properties considered significant Montana . It connects three national parks, for the preservation of the explorers' journey .