Who We Are

Catawba Lands Conservancy (CLC) is a land trust – a nonprofit, community-based conservation organization that permanently conserves and manages land for public benefit in the Southern Piedmont of North Carolina. We are dedicated to saving land and connecting lives to nature.

Our six-county land protection area includes Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and Union counties.

CLC permanently conserves over 200 properties, totaling nearly 18,000 acres of land. That land includes farmland, ecologically rich lands to protect wildlife habitat and local drinking water, and land to provide the public with a direct connection to explore the natural world around them. Through generous donations, grants, private and public funding, we are and will be able to preserve our region’s history and a healthy, natural environment for future generations.

CLC also leads advancement of the Carolina Thread Trail initiative. The Thread Trail is a 15-county, two-state, regional network of trails, blueways and conservation corridors that will link more than 2.3 million citizens. Today, over 425 miles of trail and 170 miles of blueway are open to the public.

CLC is a nationally accredited land trust by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission which ensures that land trusts ethically and effectively use public and private funding to save land.

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