Saturn Donates 2008 Vue Green Line Hybrid to The Nature Conservancy
North Carolina Chapter Will Save Fuel While it Saves Environmentally Sensitive Natural Places
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Nov. 15, 2007) — The North Carolina Chapter of The Nature Conservancy accepted a brand-new, 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid crossover SUV today at the Charlotte International Auto Show. Saturn General Manager Jill Lajdziak handed the keys to Mike Horak, associate director of TNC’s North Carolina Chapter, on behalf of Saturn and General Motors.
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Nature Conservancy to open new public trail in Davis Mountains on Oct. 5
FORT DAVIS, TEXAS (Nov. 12, 2007) — The public will have an opportunity to experience the beauty and wealth of wildlife to be discovered in the Davis Mountains on a new hiking trail opening October 5. The newly constructed, 2.5-mile Madera Canyon Hiking Trail lies within The Nature Conservancy’s Davis Mountains Preserve. The trail is a loop, beginning and ending at the Lawrence E. Wood Picnic Area on Highway 118, about 24 miles northwest of Fort Davis. It will be open during daylight hours.
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The Nature Conservancy and General Motors
In 1994, The Nature Conservancy and General Motors began a relationship that was unprecedented for both organizations because of its size and scope; $23 million in cash and trucks over 11 years. General Motors was drawn to the Conservancy because its collaborative approach promotes a healthy economy and a healthy environment. It also generates innovative initiatives within local communities that preserve our landscapes, help local economies and save precious places around the world.
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In Response To Place
Twelve notable photographers celebrate the natural world and its Beauty in ‘In Response to Place’
MIDDLETOWN, CT (Oct. 16, 2006) — Art often depicts the relationship between man and nature. In Response To Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places is the vehicle for several of today’s most renowned photographers to share their interpretation of their own relationship with natural places around the world.
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Trail Dedication Held at Southmost Preserve
General Motors funding provides new boardwalk and viewing platform
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| The scarlet blossom of the Turk's Cap inspired the name for the trail. |
BROWNSVILLE (Aug. 29, 2006) — Rio Grande Valley wildlife enthusiasts joined Nature Conservancy staff members to celebrate the expansion and improvement of the resaca trail at the Conservancy’s Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve with a naming ceremony Tuesday morning.
Improvements to the Chevrolet Turk’s Cap Trail include a newly constructed boardwalk and viewing platform that will allow visitors a panoramic view of the seasonal 55-acre resaca, an oxbow lake that provides habitat for a tremendous variety of nesting and migrating birds and waterfowl, as well as turtles, snakes and frogs.
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UAW/GM Unveils Janesville Student Decorated Vehicle
Local elementary students create artwork on steel canvas promoting nature conservation
Twenty-six Janesville School District elementary students transformed this 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe into a work of art.
JANESVILLE, Wisc. (June 5, 2006) — The UAW Local 95 / General Motors Janesville Assembly plant today unveiled a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe, which has been transformed into a work of art by combining the designs of 26 talented Janesville School District elementary students, reflecting artistic interpretations of nature conservation and renewable fuels such as E85 ethanol. Students, teachers and parents gathered to receive their first glimpse of the decorated vehicle, which is part of a donation from General Motors that includes $15,000, to aid the efforts of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. More...