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Wilkes County backs letter of support for 393-acre National Park Service land transfer near Cascades Overlook
Summary
The Conservation Trust for North Carolina requested a county-level letter of support for a proposed transfer of 393 acres below Cascades Overlook to the National Park Service; the board approved the request after CTNC staff described the need for a county-designated contact under an Interior Department secretarial order.
Aaron Flannery, Western Conservation Manager for the Conservation Trust for North Carolina (CTNC), asked the board to provide a county-level letter of support for an NPS land-acquisition project involving 393 acres below Cascades Overlook.
Flannery described CTNC as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has worked with the Blue Ridge Parkway; he said CTNC has protected roughly 38,000 acres since 1996 and transferred about 5,000 of those acres to National Park Service ownership. He explained that a Department of Interior secretarial order requires a county-level letter of support for certain public land transfers and that the letter would be signed by the county-designated official and the Blue Ridge Parkway superintendent.
Commissioner Shirley Randleman moved to approve a Letter of Support for National Park Service land acquisition opportunities; the motion passed unanimously.
