Naturaland trust is requesting funding for federally listed species habitat restoration and enhancement projects on private land naturaland trust is a private, nonprofit land trust that protects south…

Naturaland trust is requesting funding for federally listed species habitat restoration and enhancement projects on private land naturaland trust is a private, nonprofit land trust that protects south carolina s blue ridge mountains and special places in south carolina s piedmont naturaland trust has pursued this mission for almost 50 years the trust helps conservation agencies and other nonprofits acquire important properties, and the trust itself acquires and owns properties because of their natural and ecological significance currently, the trust owns almost 9,000 acres, mostly in the blue ridge escarpment and the foothills of the blue ridge mountains this is an area of recognized biodiversity, and as a result the properties owned by the trust contain rare species, including federally listed species in addition, the trust has made a concerted effort to acquire properties containing habitat for federally listed species for example, currently the trust owns properties that contain populations of the endangered bunched arrowhead sagittaria fasciculata and may contain the threatened dwarf flowered heartleaf hexastylis naniflora , as well as properties that adjoin and buffer populations of federally listed species the trust is also pursuing acquisition of other such properties however, these habitats of federally listed species are plagued by invasive species, such as english IVY, privet, asian wisteria, and exotic hollies they are also impacted by stormwater runoff and other human impacts these problems can directly harm individual specimens of the listed species and alter, degrade, and sometimes eliminate habitat of the listed species this funding is requested to address these harms and degradations of habitats and populations of federally listed species on properties owned by naturaland trust