Expanding Public Lands
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust continues expanding recreational access, building on a legacy of making over 8,000 acres available as local parks, state parks, game lands, and national forests.
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Saving Family Farms
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust works to save family farms, protecting agricultural lands that sustain our economy and preserve North Carolina's rural character.
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Protecting Local Waters & Wildlife Habitat
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust permanently conserves land along our region’s rivers and streams and how they protect critical wildlife habitat for native species.
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National Defense Conservation
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust conserves land near Fort Bragg, preventing development from disrupting military training and minimizing its impact on local residents.
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Expanding Public Lands
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust continues expanding recreational access, building on a legacy of making over 8,000 acres available as local parks, state parks, game lands, and national forests.
LEARN MORE
Saving Family Farms
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust works to save family farms, protecting agricultural lands that sustain our economy and preserve North Carolina's rural character.
LEARN MORE
Protecting Local Waters & Wildlife Habitat
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust permanently conserves land along our region’s rivers and streams and how they protect critical wildlife habitat for native species.
LEARN MORE
National Defense Conservation
Learn how Three Rivers Land Trust conserves land near Fort Bragg, preventing development from disrupting military training and minimizing its impact on local residents.
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Impact by County

Three Rivers Land Trust works with private landowners and public agencies to conserve the most important natural, scenic, agricultural, and historic places in a 15-county region of the Piedmont and Sandhills of North Carolina.

Since 1995, the Land Trust has worked to offer reasonable and attractive options to landowners who want to conserve their lands and keep them undeveloped in perpetuity. Our mission is to work thoughtfully and selectively with property owners to conserve, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms, scenic rivers , and historic places within North Carolina’s central Piedmont and Sandhills.

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Impact by County

Three Rivers Land Trust works with private landowners and public agencies to conserve the most important natural, scenic, agricultural, and historic places in a 15-county region of the Piedmont and Sandhills of North Carolina.

Since 1995, the Land Trust has worked to offer reasonable and attractive options to landowners who want to conserve their lands and keep them undeveloped in perpetuity. Our mission is to work thoughtfully and selectively with property owners to conserve, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms, scenic rivers , and historic places within North Carolina’s central Piedmont and Sandhills.

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Discover how our conservation efforts benefit communities, wildlife, and nature statewide.

51,526 ac

Total acres permanently conserved.

383 mi

Total stream miles conserved.

8,387 ac

Total acres transferred to public recreation.

31,635 ac

Total wildlife habitat acres conserved.

19,621 ac

Total local farm acres conserved.

3,943 ac

Total acres conserved for national defense.

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."

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August 8, 2025
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August 23, 2025
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October 9-12, 2025

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