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3 LZMMON GROUND VOL. 12 NO. 1 NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2000 Tennessee to Acquire First State Forest in 50 Years Forest, from page 1 mas Barron, a nature writer from Boulder, property, known as the Gulf Tract, from In- Colo . , joined the council in September . The ternational Paper . The U . S . Forest Service council helps the Fund establish partner- also plans to buy 4, 777 acres of the tract, ships to advance land conservation . which will be added to the Cherokee Na- tional Forest. The tract harbors diverse hard- ® The new " Guide to the Atlanta Campaign woods, native trout streams and habitat for of 1864 " ($3 . 50, www . daltonchamber . org, Create a Land black bear and ruffed grouse and borders the 706 / 2781111,7373 ) , edited by Frances H . Kennedy Legacy Appalachian Trail for 6 miles . Part of the of The Conservation Fund, is sponsored by state forest will be managed as a demonstra- the Dalton-Whitfield (Ga . ) Chamber of Com- COMMON GROUND tion project for sustainable forestry. merce, the city of Dalton, the Whitfield readers can protect the County Board of Commissioners , and the nation' s land and water IN The Conservation Fund rec� Pn +-1T • ' ded Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau in by sharing a bequest. Simply include the fol- two staff members and new cooperation with the fund . Supported by lowing statement in your people to its National Council . IZenay Leone grants from the National Park Service and will : joined the Fund to head the Upper Missis- the Turner Foundation, the full-color bro - "I leave The Conserve- sippi River Watershed Program at a new chure includes a campaign narrative accom- tion Fund $ Minnesota office (952 / 474-9189 , renayleone paned by detailed battle maps . or IN of my estate @earthlmk .net, 6459 Smithtown Rd . , Excel- for its charitable work . " sior, MN 55331 ) . She came to the Fund from 2 Leaders of 28 of the nation' s top conserva- For more information, contact Liz Madison the Minnesota Land Trust, where she was tion organizations recently spent three days (703 / 525-63001 executive director for six years . Leone, an in Shepherdstown, W . Va . , to discuss ups Imadison@ attorney, built the trust from a single-person and downs of the increasingly complex job conservationfund . org) . office into a professionally-staffed statewide of running a non-profit organization . John organization with headquarters in St . Paul . Morgridge, chairman of Cisco Systems, and She helped the trust protect more than Chad Holliday, chairman and CEO at 15 , 000 acres of open space and habitat worth DuPont, discussed how their experience more than $20 million . Christine Fanning guiding large corporations in the private sec- has been named marketing and communica- for might help nonprofits tackle challenges tions manager at the Fund . Before coming posed by new technologies, market forces to the Fund, Fanning ran her own photogra- and regulations . Faculty from the Wharton phy and marketing business in Belize, Executive Education Program taught the Central America . seminar, which was held Oct . 30—Nov . 1 at Truman Semans, who recently retired as the National Conservation Training Center . vice chairman of Brown Investment Advi- The Conservation Fund and the Natural sory and Trust Co . in Baltimore, Md . , joined Resources Council of America sponsored the Fund ' s National Council in August . Tho- the workshop . AIN NT8 - 8LZLZ N ' HE) nmiO 08 Od 1d34 2i3SN0ID S32d 12 IdIAN3 � ��a 1I NVIS GU 181A GHISHOORNNOI1D.H HODSSUCICI1 60ZZZ VA ` u0lnutTJV ' D'a ' NO.LDNIHSVi" OZIZ al1nS ` } S lua>I ' N 0091 E � 6E ' ON .LIIN2I3d (IIVIII HOVISOd ' S ' n ' ONO IIAO" id - NON