Important TLC Update

As partners in protecting land across the state, we want to share an important update with the TLC community. As an accredited land trust in Texas with a solid reputation of conservation success, TLC is in a unique position to take on a new responsibility. We have initiated agreements with two conservation organizations to transfer their protected lands to the TLC portfolio.

After almost 40 years of conservation work in North Texas, Connemara Conservancy Foundation (CCF) has made the decision to transition their focus to connecting people with nature through their Connemara Meadow Nature Preserve. Consequently, TLC will acquire their 33 conservation projects, totaling almost 7,100 acres of protected land across North Texas, ensuring their permanent protection.

Likewise, the Hill Country Land Trust (HCLT) board of directors made a similar decision and was confident that with such a close overlap in focus area and mission, TLC would be the right group to take over the permanent protection of their 20 conservation projects, totaling 8,400 acres in the heart of the Hill Country.

Both organizations leave behind a legacy of conservation. We are grateful to their board, volunteers, and landowners for their dedication and continued work of protecting the land, water, and wildlife of Texas.

Our new regional stewardship staff structure will allow us to take on these 53 conservation projects, totaling more than 15,000 acres, and ensure their permanent protection.

While this is a new role for us, we are glad that the TLC community has helped build a strong foundation so we can support our fellow conservation organizations in ensuring the permanent protection of land across the state.

In addition to taking on these projects, our goal is to conserve ten NEW projects each year. That means species like Golden-cheeked warblers have safe places to raise their young. It means our rivers and streams will continue to flow. It means cleaner air and water for Texans across the state.

You can continue to be part of this success, simply by making a year-end gift of $100 or more today.

YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

• You are supporting conservation efforts across the state.

• You are ensuring that our Texas land isn’t divided up, paved over, and filled with housing developments and strip malls.

• You are protecting important wildlife habitat and water resources that have untold benefits for all of us.

• You are guaranteeing that this generation and the next will get to experience wide open lands, flowing rivers, and visible stars in the sky.

Let’s make sure that these experiences last forever.