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- Members of the Nisbet family have donated conservation easements on two large parcels of land fronting the Catawba River. The easements will protect all land within 100 feet of the bank of the river for a distance of about 2.6 miles in Lancaster County. The donation will protect a total of 32.1 acres of land. An expanded easement will protect the site of the Adam Ivy Grist Mill.
- Judge Robert M. Doster and Mrs. Jean S. Doster of Lancaster have donated a tract of 43.07 acres of land along Camp Creek to Katawba Valley Land Trust. The property includes approximately 2,800 feet of frontage along Camp Creek and is located north of Lancaster at University Drive and Anderson Drive. This is the third parcel of land that the KVLT has received along Camp Creek, an important tributary of Cane Creek and the Catawba River.
- Katawba Valley Land Trust has received a conservation easement on land along Witherspoon Branch in eastern Lancaster County. The eleven-acre easement is a donation from Crescent Resources, LLC, the land management and real estate development business unit of Duke Energy. Under the easement, Crescent voluntarily gives up the right to develop the land and assigns Katawba Valley Land Trust the duty to hold the easement in perpetuity. The land includes one mile of frontage set back 50 feet on both sides of Witherspoon Branch.
- Katawba Valley Land Trust has received a donation of a parcel of land in the City of Lancaster from members of the Grier family. The parcel, to be known as the Marion H. Grier and Pat Hinson Grier Greenspace, will become a part of the Lancaster Greenway Preserve. The donation was made by siblings Sherry E. Brown, Marion H. Grier, Jr., Carla G. Saulisbury, and Michael C. Grier in memory of their parents.
Activities of Katawba Valley Land Trust have resulted in the preservation by acquisition or easement of a total of approximately 2,268 acres of land in four South Carolina counties.
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