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- Research: Story Map: Saving the Southern Cumberlands (2018)
- News: Saving the Southern Cumberlands: A Story Map by the Open Space Institute
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Story: 2021 Year in Review: Addressing Climate Change
This year, the lands added to state and national parks and forests by OSI store an estimated 1.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – equivalent to the annual emissions of more than 1.5 million cars.
- News: Persistence Pays off in Acquisition of Southern Cumberlands Tracts
- News: Southeast Targeted for Conservation Funding
- News: OSI Announces New Fund for Southern Cumberland Plateau
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Place: Cumberland Plateau
The longest hardwood forested plateau in the world, the Cumberland Plateau stretches across four states—Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama—and has endured a long history of aggressive deforestation.
- News: OSI Loan Helps Partners Protect Little Yellow Mountain in the Highlands of Roan, NC
- News: Conservation Forestry Network Hosts Workshop on Managing Forests for Multiple Values in the Southern Cumberland Plateau
- News: The Open Space Institute Supports Addition to South Mountains Headwaters Preserve in North Carolina
- News: Open Space Institute Launches Fund to Accelerate Land Conservation Within Southern Appalachian Region to Fight Climate Change
- News: OSI Supports Addition to Tennessee’s Bear Hollow Mountain Wildlife Management Area
- News: Open Space Institute’s Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund Issues Request for Proposals
- State: Tennessee
- News: OSI Helps Grow Protected Land in Tennessee’s South Cumberland Plateau Region by 13,000 Acres
- News: First Grant From OSI's Southern Cumberland Land Fund
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Place: Mid-Cumberlands
This 2,600-acre property is now part of the Bridgestone-Firestone Centennial Wilderness in the heart of 60,000 acres of conserved lands. Private funds, including OSI’s grant, and state funding allowed the Land Trust for Tennessee to save the land.
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Story: Traversing Tennessee Trails (2018)
The Denny Cove project was one of three that OSI and partners projects completed in 2017 that expand South Cumberland State Park.
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Story: Saving Chattanooga's Backyard (2020)
The Tennessee River Gorge is a geological wonder flanking a 26-mile stretch of Tennessee’s namesake river, where waters carved a path thousands of feet deep through the hard sandstone and limestone of the Cumberland Plateau.
- News: Open Space Institute Unveils Resilient Landscapes Initiative Retrospective