| The
Land Trust for the
Little Tennessee
88 East Main Street
P. O. Box 1148
Franklin, NC 28744-1148
Phone: 828-524-2711
Fax: 828-524-4741
Email: LTLT |
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Press
Release
December
12 , 2006
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LTLT
welcomes new employee
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The
Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (LTLT) would like to welcome
Tessa Shelton Sellers as their newest staff member. As a Clay
County native, Sellers has a great love for the area and a
desire to see the beauty of the mountains preserved. Sellers
is a graduate of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at
Campbell University and will be working in the area of Land
Protection at LTLT.
Since
1997, the Franklin, North Carolina based LTLT has been working
in partnership with local landowners to conserve the waters,
forests, farms and heritage of the upper Little Tennessee
and Hiwassee Valleys – a project area encompassing the
six counties in North Carolina west of the Balsam Mountains
(Clay, Cherokee, Graham,
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| Tessa
Shelton Sellers |
| Land
Protection Assistant |
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Jackson,
Macon and Swain Counties) as well as northern Rabun County
in Georgia. By year’s end, LTLT will have helped conserve
over 8200 acres of land in 33 separate projects – including
33 miles of Little Tennessee River frontage, 5 miles of Great
Smoky Mountains National Park boundary, and nearly 1000 acres
of working farmland.
Sellers
will primarily focus on conservation efforts in the Hiwassee
River valley. She will be working closely with families who
are interested in conserving their land and can provide information
about different options for land conservation and the potential
tax benefits of permanently protecting farm and forest land.
Sellers will also be involved in ongoing LTLT projects for
2007 which includes plans to conserve the historic Cowee Mound
on the Little Tennessee River in Macon County, the 800-acre
Yellow Creek Tract on the Cheoah River in Graham County and
the 1,100-acre Fisher Creek Tract in the Balsam Mountains
in Jackson County.
If you would like to contact Tessa or would like further information
on the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, you may call 828-524-2711
or visit www.ltlt.org. |
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