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Saturday June 6, 2009 is Land Trust Day!
Do you like to shop? Do you like to hike, bike, walk, or run? Whatever your interest, this is a day you can help protect your local environment.
On the first Saturday of June, businesses across the state show their support for land and water protection by donating a percentage of their sales, supporting membership drives, or by making donation to their local land trust. Land Trust Day is also National Trails Day, a day when outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds celebrate the great natural heritage of our state and nation’s trail system. >>Find events in your area
Great Outdoor Provision Co., a Raleigh-based outdoor gear retailer, began Land Trust Day on National Trails Day in 1992 as a way of giving back to groups that are protecting the great outdoors of North Carolina. Other retail stores have followed their lead and make Land Trust Day a self-imposed “earth tax” to give back to the environment that makes their businesses possible.
You can preserve more local places to recreate by simply getting involved in celebrating Land Trust Day. Buy a gift for yourself or others at a store participating in Land Trust Day, join your local land trust, volunteer for a trail maintenance work project, attend an educational program about the environment, and/or simply take some time to enjoy a hike, walk, run, or bike in a natural area near where you live.
>> Participating Land Trusts
>> 2008 Land Trust Day Partners
>> Interested Retailers for 2008 Land Trust Day
>> Letter from Great Outdoor Provision Co., Tom and Becca Valone
What is a Land Trust?A land trust (or conservancy) is a nonprofit organization that actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in direct land transactions. Primarily the purchase or acceptance of donations of land or conservation easements. There are 23 land trusts in North Carolina working to save the places you love by protecting our ecological diversity, water quality and open space.
About Land Trust Day
On the first Saturday of June, businesses across the state show their support for their local land trusts by donating a percentage of their sales, supporting membership drives, or by making donations. Great Outdoor Provision Co. began Land Trust Day in 1992 as a way of giving back to groups that are protecting the great outdoors.