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Southern U.S. Needs to Grow Smarter

1/12/2021

Human population continues to surge across much of the southern United States, with resulting conversion of rural landscapes and environmentally sensitive areas to more urban and industrial uses. As human population grows and more urban/suburban development occurs, we should be embracing wiser and more environmentally balanced alternatives for use of land resources and community development.
Upstate Forever, a multifaceted environmental and community conservation organization based in Greenville, South Carolina, has articulated Ten Principles of Smart Growth. READ MORE or click on image.

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Conservation, viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
--Aldo Leopold

There is in fact no distinction between the fate of the land and the fate of the people. When one is abused, the other suffers.
--Wendell Berry

From the President

SCP President Chuck Roe looked at land conservation along the route of John Muir's "Southern Trek."
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This blog offers views of our Board and partners. We invite your viewpoint on the following questions:
--How can we work together to overcome isolation among groups working to protect and conserve land, water, wildlife, biodiversity, urban green spaces, productive farms and forests, and communities?
--How can we devise means to conserve more natural and rural land resources in corporate ownership (even in "syndicated" partnership ownership)? Can that be done ethically, responsibly, effectively?
--Is there substantive interest in creating a new regional association of nonprofit groups engaged in land conservation and environmental protection in the southern U.S.--for mutual support and exchange ?
--Is there a need for a regional approach to promote, assess, recognize, and certify operational standards and practices, and performance excellence for nonprofit environmental resource conservation groups?
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