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Friends of Radnor Lake Purchases and Protects 10 acres adjacent to Radnor Lake State Natural Area is a Nashville icon. Fifteen minutes from downtown Nashville, it receives 850,000 to 1 million visitors a year! A Class II Natural Area, the emphasis of the park is on wildlife observation and ecosystem preservation. The Friends of Radnor Lake, the oldest Tennessee State Park non-profit support group, (http://www.radnorlake.org/forl.html) has a long and successful history of providing educational programs, conducting environmental research and acquiring land to add to the park. This summer, The Friends of Radnor Lake acquired five tracts of property totaling just over 10 acres along Granny White Pike and worked with The Land Trust to place a conservation easement on the land to make sure this addition would be protected forever. This land was slated to be a residential development and now will be forever wild. The land is to be transferred to the State. The opportunity to add parkland to a popular urban-area park is rare and we congratulate the Friends on this accomplishment. Thank you for the chance to partner! |
