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In honor of Land Trust Day, Foothills Land Conservancy and
Mast General Store are partnering with an in-store fundraiser on
June 1-2.
Land Trust Day
is a friend-raising event coinciding with National Trails Day that
encourages new memberships in local land trusts. It’s an educational
opportunity for store patrons to learn how land trusts serve the
community—working to preserve a region’s rural character and assisting
in the protection of valuable wildlife habitat and open lands. Jim
Richards, Mast General Store’s General Manager in Knoxville and a board member at Ijams, says by
partnering together both groups hope to “raise public awareness about
land protection and what’s being done at the local level.”
Land Trust Day Kick Off! Friday, June 1 at Mast General Store (6-8 p.m.) Coinciding with Knoxville’s "First Friday" festivities, Stephen Lyn Bales will speak about the ivory-billed woodpecker and what habitat loss meant to this endangered species. Copies of his book Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935-1941, donated by UT Press, will be available for sale with ALL the proceeds going to the Foothills Land Conservancy.
Land Trust Day Kick Off! Friday, June 1 at Mast General Store (6-8 p.m.) Coinciding with Knoxville’s "First Friday" festivities, Stephen Lyn Bales will speak about the ivory-billed woodpecker and what habitat loss meant to this endangered species. Copies of his book Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935-1941, donated by UT Press, will be available for sale with ALL the proceeds going to the Foothills Land Conservancy.
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