Naturaland Trust

“A copy of the 2015 form 990 was not provided to the entire board. An appropriate officer of the board was designated to review the 990 on behalf of the board of directors.”

“The organization does not currently have a conflict of interest policy in place.”

“The organization makes its form 990 available upon request. Additionally, recent filings of the form can be found on guidestar.org.”

“Our mission for the past 40 years has been to protect "a few special places...in trust for the future." the places we strive to protect include the blue ridge escarpment - the magnificent "blue wall," key upstate south carolina rivers, waterfalls and riparian resources and other important natural areas. We accomplish this by working with landowners, other land trusts, government agencies and foundations to secure title, conservation easements or other protected status in perpetuity for these important natural lands and resources.”

“The following parcels were acquired by purchase, received as a donation, or sold to further the preservation of natural areas for the benefit of the public. Expenses include costs associated with the servicing of the assets, but not the asset cost. The following parcels were purchased: 1. Dubose property/spy rock road this property is a critical inholding within the national forest. We purchased this property to protect it, then sell it to the us forest service for inclusion in the national forest. 2. Cedar rock/cross creek timber this property will eventually connect into jones gap state park when we transfer our lands to scprt. 3. Gospel fellowship paris mountain this property is key to maintaining the forested viewshed atop paris mountain. Eventually, we will transfer this property to scprt. 4. Grassy knob tract b this property will continue to be protected by nt and will become part of the dnr wma program. The following parcel was received as a donation: 1. Grassy knob tract a - from scdot this property was part of a mitigation effort by dot. We will continue to own and manage the property. The following parcel was sold: 1. Grubbs/north saluda a partial 10-acre piece of the larger property was sold. The 10-acre piece helped to raise funding to purchase the larger forested parcel.”

“Easements were given on the following parcels for the benefit of the public: 1. Grassy knob track a - easement given to upstate forever the easement was a condition of the mitigation work and funding mechanism to purchase the property - value 328,260 2. Paris mountain - mcgee tract - easment given to upstate forever the easement was placed on the property before we transfer it to scprt for inclusion in paris mountain state park - value 101,662 3. Oconee village - easement given to upstate forever the easement was placed on the property to protect it forever before we transfer it to scprt - value 68,512 cash grants were given to the following: 1. Upstate forever - 18,300 2. Sc department of natural resources - 5,000 3. Friends of the reedy river - 250 4. Sc native plant society - 2,000 5. Sc united methodist camps - 3,500”

“K1 items -8,285 k-1 items -6,051 total -14,336”