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Georgia Conservancy • Winter 2017 panoramaGEORGIA CONSERVANCY • WINTER 2017 georgiaconservancy.org | panorama winter 2017 | 1 panorama THE MAGAZINE OF THE GEORGIA CONSERVANCY The Georgia Conservancy is a statewide, member-supported conservation organization. Our work for environmental advocacy, land conservation, coastal protection, sustainable growth and outdoor stewardship FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT recognizes the connection between the environment, the economy and Georgia’s quality of life. our past is your present BOARD OF TRUSTEES GENERATION GREEN BOARD ifty years. That’s longer than I’ve been around and I feel like that’s been C. Edward Dobbs Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs Ben Stowers Stowers & Company ,* Atlanta, Board Chair, ,** Board Chair, forever. A lot can change in 50 years. Children, grandchildren and Brent Beatty, Atlanta, Primary Theory Chelsea Arkin, Georgia Dept. of Community Affairs F Mark S. Berry, Ph.D., Douglasville, Georgia Power Company Jenni Asman, Georgia State University even great-grandchildren are added to family trees. Trends rise and fall and Gregory W. Blount, Atlanta, Troutman Sanders Meredith Brown, Cox Enterprises rise again. Technology? Where to begin? We live in a world that is ever- Roger Bowman, Rincon, Gulfstream Drew Cutright, Georgia Institute of Technology changing, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst. Amanda Brown Olmstead, Atlanta, A. Brown-Olmstead Associates Buck Dixon, Troutman Sanders, LLP For 50 years, the Georgia Conservancy has ridden and even sometimes Charlie Covert,* Milton, UPS Katherine Huded,* Rubicon Global influenced this tide of history and change. Robust, fast website? We got it. Randy Earley, Marietta, Cox Enterprises Sasha Friedman, UPS Greg Euston,* Marietta, McGraw Euston Associates Nell Fry,* Sustainability Consultant Creating a GPS map of our only National Seashore? We did it. Patrice Thompson Francis, Atlanta, Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy Wesley Holmes, Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance Our methods may have evolved, but one thing that has remained Steve Green, Savannah, Stephen Green Properties Nikishka Iyengar, Rubicon Global constant is our mission to conserve Georgia’s natural resources. Since day Chris Hagler,* Atlanta, Ernst & Young Abbie King, Georgia Organics one - a cold February morning in 1967 at Sweetwater Creek – we have Robert Ramsay Peter Hartman, Atlanta, Hartman Simons & Wood LLP Rachel Maher, Park Pride not let up in our efforts to forward conservation in this state. The citizen Holden T. Hayes, Savannah, South State Bank Maggie Nicholson, Event and Marketing Professional President Chet Hurwitz,* Atlanta, Attorney Anne Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology leaders who founded the Georgia Conservancy that day carved the path [email protected] Joann G. Jones,* Atlanta, Baker Hostetler Ashay Shah, Deloitte that is as necessary today as it was at our founding, and one that we will Kirk Malmberg,* Marietta, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Joey Shea,* Southface continue to follow. Leslie D. Mattingly,* St. Simons Island, Private Counsel Attorney Christina Smith, ICF International We are reminded every day that conservation is never over; it is an George N. Mori,* Atlanta, SolAmerica Energy Taylor Spicer, Emory University unending journey, where successes can be erased with the stroke of a pen Randal Morris, White Oak, GP Cellulose Joe Thomas,* Trees Atlanta and where places that were thought lost to the destruction of people can PJ Newcomb, Decatur, Coca-Cola North America Leila Costa, Sodexo Ranse Partin,* Atlanta, Conley Griggs Partin LLP Sister Ward, AGL Resources rise from the ashes. This has been evident throughout our 50 years and Panorama THE GEORGIA CONSERVANCY Russ Pennington, Brookhaven, Pennington Consulting Services, Inc. this theme will become clear as you read this issue of magazine, MISSION Philip Roberts, Ph.D., Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology which focuses much on our past and present work on Cumberland Island, Alex Robinson,* Atlanta, Axiom and as you explore our 50th Anniversary webpage. To protect and conserve Georgia’s natural Ben Stowers,** Atlanta, Stowers & Company Georgia is the sixth most biodiverse state in the Union. We are blessed Charles Stripling, Ph.D., Camilla, Stripling, Inc. *Executive Committee Member resources through advocacy, engagement Chet Tisdale, Atlanta, Retired Partner, King & Spalding **Ex Officio Member every day to have our mountains and plateaus in the north, our forests and and collaboration. Malon Wickham, Columbus, Wells Fargo Advisors wetlands in our south, and our incredible salt marshes and barrier islands on our coast – all connected by an incredible network of streams and rivers that support, in one way or another every living thing in this state. And GEORGIA CONSERVANCY STAFF through the support of our members and partners, we’ve been successful at protecting and supporting the conservation of a number of incredible Robert Ramsay,** President Monica Thornton, Vice President places across this diverse state, precious places like Cumberland Island, Renee Alston, Senior Corporate Engagement Manager Sweetwater Creek State Park, the Cohutta Wilderness, Sprewell Bluff on Laura Buckmaster, Stewardship Trips Coordinator the Flint River and the Okefenokee Wilderness Area. We will celebrate Leah Dixon, Advocacy Director Headquarters these stories and more throughout our 50th anniversary year. Brian Foster, Communications Director If our state, as a whole, is to remain one of our nation’s great natural Ben Fowler, Stewardship Trips Director 230 Peachtree Street, Suite 1250 Johanna McCrehan, Urban Design Lead Atlanta, GA 30303 wonders, we must continue our mission into the next 50 years and remain Charles H. McMillan III, Coastal Director (404) 876 - 2900 on the path forged for us in 1967, all while adjusting to situations and Katherine Moore, Senior Director of Sustainable Growth [email protected] circumstances as they arise. Our Past is Your Present, and that means that Cara Murray, Cumberland Island Trail Restoration Fellow the present will determine our future. Lisa Patrick, Executive Assistant Coastal Office Cheri Robinson, Finance Manager 428 Bull Street, Suite 210 Bryan Schroeder, Senior Director of Development and Marketing Savannah, GA 31401 Alexis Torres, Donor Relations Director (912) 447 - 5910 Ermis Zayas, Development Director [email protected] cover photo by William Brawley 2 | panorama winter 2017 | georgiaconservancy.org georgiaconservancy.org | panorama winter 2017 | 3 NATURAL PARTNERS in this issue Investing in Georgia’s Culture of Conservation Nothing that the Georgia Conservancy has accomplished in our 50 years can be solely attributed to the work of our staff, volunteers, members and board of trustees. We pride ourselves on being an organization that collaborates with a diverse range of partners - our Natural Partners - with the goal of forwarding a culture of conservation in Georgia. Our Natural Partners are some of the Georgia Conservancy’s strongest allies in the conservation and stewardship of Georgia’s natural resources. Without the support of Natural Partners that have a stake in the environmental and economic well-being of our state, our mission would not be possible. Learn more at: www.georgiaconservancy.org/naturalpartners photos by William Brawley, Phuc Dao, Sarah Dodge, and Becky Rentz 07. Creating Conservation: With this issue of Panorama, Cumberland Island Becomes a National Seashore we’re officially kicking off 12. Our 50th Gift to You! our 50th Anniversary and sharing with our readers how 16. Georgia’s Precious Places to celebrate with us: whether Five places we want to take you in 2017 by visiting a Precious Place, 17. 50TH anniversary & tent revivals attending our family reunion, Celebrate with us all year long! or sharing a story at a tent revival. We hope you’ll join us! 18. Recent Events 20. program updates 22. 2017 calendar 4 | panorama winter 2017 | georgiaconservancy.org georgiaconservancy.org | panorama winter 2017 | 5 CREATING CONSERVATION: Cumberland Island Becomes a National Seashore Part One: The Georgia Conservancy on Cumberland, 1967-1972 Written by Brian Foster ot a day goes by when the it began at one of the most critical NGeorgia Conservancy isn’t, periods of Cumberland Island’s in some form or fashion, focused history. In the late 1960s, we on the stewardship of Cumberland placed ourselves squarely into the Island and our ongoing efforts to conversations and debates that led realize the island’s vision as stated to Cumberland’s establishment as a in its purpose statement, that: National Seashore, and we haven’t “Cumberland Island National been quiet since. Seashore maintains the primitive, Towering dunes, lush maritime undeveloped character of one of the forests, inland lakes, miles of largest and most ecologically diverse deserted beach -- 36,000 acres of barrier islands on the Atlantic coast, solitude. The wild island that we while preserving scenic, scientific know today may seem like a largely and historical values, and provid- untouched relic from the Pleisto- ing outstanding opportunities for cene epoch, but the conservation outdoor recreation and solitude.” successes that we see and feel today Cumberland Island is woven on Cumberland Island did not into the history of the Georgia happen naturally – they were hard Conservancy. From our earliest fought by citizens, Cumberland advocacy efforts to the development landowners, conservation organiza- of Cumberland’s first GPS trail map tions and dedicated elected officials.
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