| Gaston County
- State Funding for Conservation Projects in Gaston County (aka "Green Book" data)
- Example of conservation projects in Gaston County funded with state trust fund money:
Jack Moore Nature Preserve 
In 1789 French botanist Andre Michaux visited the farm of his friend Bennett Smith near the banks of Hoyle Creek and noticed trees unlike any he had witnessed before. He declared the tree a new species of magnolia, Magnolia macrophylla, commonly known today as bigleaf magnolia. Michaux made his important find within the boundary of Catawba Lands Conservancy’s pending 92-acre Jack Moore Nature Preserve, made possible by a $461,000 grant from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund. To walk the site is to step back in time. Bigleaf magnolias, some 50 and 60 feet tall, thrive on the north-facing slope, surrounded by wildflowers such as bloodroot, trillium and silverbell. Photo courtesy of Conservation Trust for North Carolina.
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