Common Ground e-newsletter

This New Year, why not evolve your resolve? We know just the places to make your resolutions a reality in 2012. Check out our list—and this year, you might actually enjoy checking off your own:

1. Save Money.
Looking for adventure? You can get away without going broke in East Texas. Here’s what you can see from a kayak in the wild, mysterious Big Thicket National Preserve.

2. Lose Weight
Anywhere from Georgia to Maine, you can strap on a pack and hit the Appalachian Trail, where you’ll find gorgeous views, deep quiet and climbs that melt away pounds.

3. Stress Less
Florida is the place to be during winter—particularly if you’re a manatee. You can see these special animals at Crystal River’s Three Sisters Springs.

4. Get Organized
A major new survey by the Land Trust Alliance shows that land trusts with strategic conservation plans save double the land that other trusts do. Visit our new Strategic Conservation Planning guide online and get busy.

5. Exercise More
Nashville has the tunes—and trails—to get your heart pumping. With a new open space plan, this one-of-a-kind place will have you biking, walking and playing.

6. Travel
Don’t miss Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, where huge chunks of petrified trees litter a stark southwestern landscape. This fossil-hunting haven will take you back in time.

7. Get Smart
Need the skinny on new conservation techniques? Head to West Virginia’s National Conservation Training Center, where our Conservation Leadership Network offers courses on green infrastructure, mitigation and more.

8. Eat Better
If you want the good stuff, get local. At Snead’s Farm in Virginia, you can pick up fresh asparagus, sugar snap peas, grapes, raspberries, sweet corn and much more.

9. Volunteer
Coast to coast, you can change lives by reconnecting kids with nature. Check out some of our efforts in New York and beyond.

10. Give Back
Help us save our favorite places before they become just a memory. Donate on our website.