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COMMON GROUND VOL. 12 NO. 5 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2001
<br /> Kodak Awards American Greenway Grants Kodak Greenway
<br /> ® Eastman Kodak, National Geographic Soci- • David Burwell, president and CEO of the Grantees
<br /> e - uracerans and The Conservation Fund have reco Surface Transportation Policy Pject and co- Kac Heritage Land
<br /> g p Yro� Trust,
<br /> Alaska
<br /> nized four conservation leaders and awarded founder of the Rails-to -Trails Conservancy, Sky Island Alliance, Ariz .
<br /> grants to 31 groups for their greenway, trail was honored for his lifetime achievements Friends of Sausal Creek,
<br /> and open space projects . in conservation . Calif.
<br /> Trees, Water & People, Colo .
<br /> • Delaware Greenways of Wilmington, Del . , Rails-to-Trails Conservancy,
<br /> Kodak sponsors the annual American is a statewide nonprofit group that has D . C.
<br /> Greenway Awards program, which has pro - helped to acquire more than 400 acres of Delaware Greenways, Inc.,
<br /> vided 360 rants over eight ears, to stimu- open space and developed more than 12 Del.
<br /> g g Y p p p Broward Urban River Trails,
<br /> late planning and design of greenways . The miles of trails along the Northern Delaware Fla .
<br /> 31 local greenway groups (see list at right) Greenway, the state' s first greenway. Wood River Land Trust,
<br /> were chosen from nearly 200 applicants to • The State of Maryland created the nation' s Idaho
<br /> receive rants u to $2,500 . first GreenPrint program, which provides Living Lands and Waters
<br /> g p _ P g � P Restoration Organization,
<br /> Among the grantees : $30 million a year to protect and link the 111 .
<br /> • The Headwaters Trail System in Three state" s most ecologically important lands (see Canal Corridor Association,
<br /> Forks, Mont. , will use its grant to establish a CG 12 :4 ) . The state also completed the Ill .
<br /> 5 -mile trail to link the cityto the Missouri nation' s first green infrastructure assessment Jo FouDavnds Conservation
<br /> g Foundation, Ill .
<br /> River Headwaters State Park. and published a statewide atlas of blueways, Morehead Downtown
<br /> • The Broward Urban River Trails in Ft. greenways and green infrastructure . Association, Inc ., Ky.
<br /> Lauderdale, Fla . , will develo a lik Roanoke Valle Greenwa Commission of Eastern Trail Alliance, Maine
<br /> p near par Y Y North County Land Trust,
<br /> along an abandoned railroad corridor link- Roanoke, Va . , is a government-appointed Inc„ Md .
<br /> ing Broward Urban River Trails to the corri- group that has advised Roanoke City, Saginaw Bay Greenways
<br /> dor and nearby neighborhoods . Roanoke County, Salem and Vinton, Va . , in Collaborative, Mich .
<br /> • Friends of Sausal Creek in Oakland Calif. , planning or developing greenway ro ects . , Headwaters Trail System,
<br /> p g p g g Y p j Mont.
<br /> will complete plans for a creekside trail and The awards were presented Sept. 18 at Friends of the Buffalo
<br /> prepare a booklet to generate public support the Mid-Atlantic Governors Conference of Niagara Rivers, N.Y.
<br /> for the trail . Greenways, s and
<br /> d Green Infrastruc- New York Parks and
<br /> Y Conservation Association,
<br /> The outstanding achievement awardees : ture held in Arlington, Va . N.Y.
<br /> Jackson County Greenways
<br /> Commission, N. C.
<br /> ® " New River Community
<br /> Partners, Inc ., N. C .
<br /> Duke Foundation Awards Grants to Fund Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in
<br /> Oregon, Ore.
<br /> ® The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Idaho . The ranch will be transferred to the Roaring Run Watershed
<br /> Association. Pa.
<br /> recently awarded $5 . 6 million to The state Fish and Game Department for addition Great Smoky Mountains
<br /> Conservation Fund for land conservation in to the Sand Lake Wildlife Management Area . Regional Greenway
<br /> the Greater Yellowstone region and the The $3 . 5 million rant for the southern Advisory Board, Tenn .
<br /> g g Cumberland Trail
<br /> southern Appalachian Mountains . Appalachians will help protect priority for- Conference, Tenn.
<br /> estland properties . It is the fifth site chosen City of Roxton, Texas
<br /> The Fund received a $2 . 1 million grant by the foundation for its $34 million national Virgin River Land
<br /> Preservation Association,
<br /> to conserve natural areas and working land- land conservation initiative . Utah
<br /> scapes in Idaho and Wyoming under the The two recent grants follow a $3 . 5 mil- Woodstock Conservation
<br /> foundation' s Greater Yellowstone Initiative . lion grant the foundation gave to the Fund Commission, Vt.
<br /> The grant will be matched on a 54o4 basis last year for land conservation in the gulf Piedmont Environmental
<br /> Council, Va .
<br /> to protect 10, 000 acres in the region . Partners coastal plain of south Georgia and north Gilmer County Family
<br /> include Teton Regional Land Trust, Jackson Florida . Partners are the Tall Timbers Re- Resource Network, Inc.,
<br /> Hole Land Trust, Henry' s Fork Foundation search Station, Georgia Conservancy, 1000 W. Va .
<br /> "I support Friends of Florida, The Nature Conservancy Heritage Foundation Dane County Natural
<br /> Y• pp Y , we
<br /> and The Nature Conservanc
<br /> conservation projects that respect private and Trust for Public Land . The Fund is work- Milwaukee River Partner
<br /> property rights and support rural communi- ing with the research station to acquire land Team, wise .
<br /> ties," said Idaho Gov . Dirk Kempthorne . and conservation easements .
<br /> "Cooperative actions can provide environ- "In these biologically diverse regions of
<br /> mental improvements without putting America where conversion of natural lands is
<br /> people out of business . " so prevalent, it is timely to have the vision,
<br /> The Fund has committed $500, 000 of the leadership and support of the Doris Duke
<br /> grant to protect a 1 ,500-acre ranch along the Charitable Foundation," said Rex Boner, of
<br /> Henry' s Fork of the Snake River in Chester, the Fund' s Georgia office . 3
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