| Macon County
- State Funding for Conservation Projects in Macon County (aka "Green Book" data)
- Example of conservation projects in Macon County funded with state trust fund money:
Cowee Mound
In the 7th-century, Native Americans built a mound on which to hold council meetings at the center of their village on the Little Tennessee River. This mound has remained at the heart of the community as it has changed over the last 1400 years, into the principal commercial and diplomatic center of the 18th-century mountain Cherokee, to the target of the first military campaign of the American Revolution in the South, and now into a peaceful agricultural community. The mound and surrounding land, threatened by second home development, will be protected for future generations thanks in part to a grant of $471,000 from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund to the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee.
- In an article in the Smoky Mountain News, several farmers say that they want to put their farms in conservation easements if there were some seed money to help them do so. Land for Tomorrow's passage would be instrumental in making this happen across the state. View the article.
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