Mission/History
LOCAL PEOPLE …SAVING LOCAL LANDS
MISSION:
The Bay County Conservancy (BCC) is a land trust dedicated to the preservation of environmentally sensitive lands in Northwest Florida.
We are a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization and a member of the national Land Trust Alliance. Our goal is to acquire land that will enhance the present and future natural resources of this area. With the Panhandles’s rapid growth rate, these lands and natural resources are under constant pressure and threat of development.
Environmentally important land areas such as endangered wetlands, will be purchased or accepted as tax-exempt donations. Land can also be preserved through conservation easements. An easement is a contract between a landowner and the Bay County Conservancy that protects certain natural resources of the land while leaving the landowner in possession and with some use of the land.
Links
Bay County Conservancy, The Land Conservancy of Northwest Florida, is a member of the national Land Trust Alliance (LTA). The LTA leads a national network of nearly 1700 community-based, nonprofit land conservation organizations working to safeguard land for present and future generations. For more information, visit www.lta.org