Unique Places to Save
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Non profit dedicated to restoring and conserving land and water across the United States - over 8,500 acres protected to date!
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Stand on a ridge and pour out a glass of water. Some runs one way, some the other. That ridge is a divide. It decides which river your rain joins. Divides are borders of every watershed.
Explore the Watersheds We Protect
Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.
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September 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Stand on a ridge and pour out a glass of water. Some runs one way, some the other. That ridge is a divide. It decides which river your rain joins. Divides are borders of every watershed.
In the headwaters of Daddys Creek on the Cumberland Plateau, 31 acres of restored streams and wetlands stand protected at High Hood in Tennessee.
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High Hood | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Explore how conservation easements and mitigation banking projects are preserving water quality and ecological integrity in Tennessee and North Carolina
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September 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
In the headwaters of Daddys Creek on the Cumberland Plateau, 31 acres of restored streams and wetlands stand protected at High Hood in Tennessee.
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Carol Akers' grandparents brought her father to Ramseur to work the cotton mill.
Five of them lived in one company house. They walked across the bridge every morning. They owed the company store, like everybody did, and were paid in script instead of money.
Five of them lived in one company house. They walked across the bridge every morning. They owed the company store, like everybody did, and were paid in script instead of money.
September 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Carol Akers' grandparents brought her father to Ramseur to work the cotton mill.
Five of them lived in one company house. They walked across the bridge every morning. They owed the company store, like everybody did, and were paid in script instead of money.
Five of them lived in one company house. They walked across the bridge every morning. They owed the company store, like everybody did, and were paid in script instead of money.
Watershed of the month: the Tennessee headwaters.
Mountain water starts cold and clean on the Cumberland Plateau, then runs all the way to the Gulf. We protect a string of headwater sites that keep it that way.
Mountain water starts cold and clean on the Cumberland Plateau, then runs all the way to the Gulf. We protect a string of headwater sites that keep it that way.
September 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Watershed of the month: the Tennessee headwaters.
Mountain water starts cold and clean on the Cumberland Plateau, then runs all the way to the Gulf. We protect a string of headwater sites that keep it that way.
Mountain water starts cold and clean on the Cumberland Plateau, then runs all the way to the Gulf. We protect a string of headwater sites that keep it that way.
You have a street address. You also have a watershed address: your creek, your river, your river's family. It is the address your water uses. Most people never learn it. This year, you will.
Explore the Watersheds We Protect
Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.
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September 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
You have a street address. You also have a watershed address: your creek, your river, your river's family. It is the address your water uses. Most people never learn it. This year, you will.
41 acres of wetlands among 56 protected acres in McCreary County, KY. Marsh Creek is one of our quiet giants, keeping headwater country clean in southern Kentucky.
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Millions of acres of American wetlands may lose federal protection - we need to act now to conserve them faster than ever!
Who We Are Unique Places to Save is a small but effective conservation nonprofit. Over the last 14 years, we've protected thousands of acres of wetland habitat across the country. Why Wetlands, Why…
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September 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
41 acres of wetlands among 56 protected acres in McCreary County, KY. Marsh Creek is one of our quiet giants, keeping headwater country clean in southern Kentucky.
Become a Wetland Keeper: giving.uniqueplacestosave.org/page/wetland...
Become a Wetland Keeper: giving.uniqueplacestosave.org/page/wetland...
Ramseur's mayor is 81 years old and calls himself a river rat.
As a boy, Hampton Spivey slept on the banks of the Deep River two or three weekends a month. No sleeping bags. Just an old blanket.
"I woke up out there one time covered in snow."
As a boy, Hampton Spivey slept on the banks of the Deep River two or three weekends a month. No sleeping bags. Just an old blanket.
"I woke up out there one time covered in snow."
September 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ramseur's mayor is 81 years old and calls himself a river rat.
As a boy, Hampton Spivey slept on the banks of the Deep River two or three weekends a month. No sleeping bags. Just an old blanket.
"I woke up out there one time covered in snow."
As a boy, Hampton Spivey slept on the banks of the Deep River two or three weekends a month. No sleeping bags. Just an old blanket.
"I woke up out there one time covered in snow."
Where does your dollar actually go? Here's the honest answer. 🌿
It funds the work that outlasts the headline: monitoring properties year after year, upholding every easement term, and defending protected land if it's ever challenged.
It funds the work that outlasts the headline: monitoring properties year after year, upholding every easement term, and defending protected land if it's ever challenged.
September 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Where does your dollar actually go? Here's the honest answer. 🌿
It funds the work that outlasts the headline: monitoring properties year after year, upholding every easement term, and defending protected land if it's ever challenged.
It funds the work that outlasts the headline: monitoring properties year after year, upholding every easement term, and defending protected land if it's ever challenged.
A new conservation project is taking shape in Randolph County. 🌿
Our upcoming 24-acre “Blue Sky” Conservation Easement will protect 7,147 linear feet of restored stream and 4.48 acres of functional wetlands.
Our upcoming 24-acre “Blue Sky” Conservation Easement will protect 7,147 linear feet of restored stream and 4.48 acres of functional wetlands.
September 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
A new conservation project is taking shape in Randolph County. 🌿
Our upcoming 24-acre “Blue Sky” Conservation Easement will protect 7,147 linear feet of restored stream and 4.48 acres of functional wetlands.
Our upcoming 24-acre “Blue Sky” Conservation Easement will protect 7,147 linear feet of restored stream and 4.48 acres of functional wetlands.
Three sizes of watershed, in plain words. Your creek is the small one. Your river is the creek plus all its neighbors. Your river's family is every river that flows to the same place. You live in all three at once.
Explore the Watersheds We Protect
Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.
watersheds.uniqueplacestosave.org
September 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Three sizes of watershed, in plain words. Your creek is the small one. Your river is the creek plus all its neighbors. Your river's family is every river that flows to the same place. You live in all three at once.
Our first conservation easement in Missouri: 72 acres along Apple Creek in Perry and Cape Girardeau Counties, protected forever.
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Hickory Jack | Conservation Mitigation Easement
See our first conservation easement in Missouri to protect critical habitats and enhance biodiversity along Apple Creek in Perry & Cape Girardeau Counties
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September 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Our first conservation easement in Missouri: 72 acres along Apple Creek in Perry and Cape Girardeau Counties, protected forever.
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Ramseur, North Carolina exists because somebody needed to grind corn.
A grist mill on the Deep River turned moving water into power. Farmers came to have their corn ground. A town assembled around them.
The woman who is town clerk today descends from the family that built that mill.
A grist mill on the Deep River turned moving water into power. Farmers came to have their corn ground. A town assembled around them.
The woman who is town clerk today descends from the family that built that mill.
August 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Ramseur, North Carolina exists because somebody needed to grind corn.
A grist mill on the Deep River turned moving water into power. Farmers came to have their corn ground. A town assembled around them.
The woman who is town clerk today descends from the family that built that mill.
A grist mill on the Deep River turned moving water into power. Farmers came to have their corn ground. A town assembled around them.
The woman who is town clerk today descends from the family that built that mill.
From the Field Friday 🌿 Heading up into the Blue Ridge Mountains, NC, to Dugger Creek where wetlands, streams, and protected-species habitat come together at watershed scale.
What stands out in the field here is the connection: the water that starts in these mountains doesn't stay in them.
What stands out in the field here is the connection: the water that starts in these mountains doesn't stay in them.
August 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
From the Field Friday 🌿 Heading up into the Blue Ridge Mountains, NC, to Dugger Creek where wetlands, streams, and protected-species habitat come together at watershed scale.
What stands out in the field here is the connection: the water that starts in these mountains doesn't stay in them.
What stands out in the field here is the connection: the water that starts in these mountains doesn't stay in them.
"So do I have to give up my land?" 🌿 It's the first question almost every landowner asks and the answer is no.
A conservation easement is a voluntary, permanent agreement that limits certain development while you keep ownership, keep living and working the land, and can still pass it on.
A conservation easement is a voluntary, permanent agreement that limits certain development while you keep ownership, keep living and working the land, and can still pass it on.
August 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"So do I have to give up my land?" 🌿 It's the first question almost every landowner asks and the answer is no.
A conservation easement is a voluntary, permanent agreement that limits certain development while you keep ownership, keep living and working the land, and can still pass it on.
A conservation easement is a voluntary, permanent agreement that limits certain development while you keep ownership, keep living and working the land, and can still pass it on.
Downstream is not just a direction. It is a relationship. Whatever touches the water upstream reaches everyone below: the next town, the next farm, the fish, the coast. We all live downstream of someone.
Explore the Watersheds We Protect
Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.
watersheds.uniqueplacestosave.org
August 26, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Downstream is not just a direction. It is a relationship. Whatever touches the water upstream reaches everyone below: the next town, the next farm, the fish, the coast. We all live downstream of someone.
65 acres of Appalachian streams and wetlands in Hampshire County, WV. Camp Run keeps mountain water clean, protected forever.
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Camp Run | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Discover the Camp Run Conservation Easement project in West Virginia, focused on restoring streams and wetlands while enhancing local ecosystems for future generations.
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August 25, 2026 at 9:01 PM
65 acres of Appalachian streams and wetlands in Hampshire County, WV. Camp Run keeps mountain water clean, protected forever.
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Protection doesn't stop at the state line. This year we became permanent steward of 65 acres at Camp Run, WV water that flows all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Where the water goes, the work goes. 🌿
August 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Protection doesn't stop at the state line. This year we became permanent steward of 65 acres at Camp Run, WV water that flows all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Where the water goes, the work goes. 🌿
From the Field Friday 🌿 Dispatch from Surry County, NC: the Miller easement, where nearly a mile of tributary now runs protected for good, wrapped in the riparian forest that keeps it healthy.
August 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
From the Field Friday 🌿 Dispatch from Surry County, NC: the Miller easement, where nearly a mile of tributary now runs protected for good, wrapped in the riparian forest that keeps it healthy.
The cheapest flood control we have is already built it just needs protecting. 🌊
As storms intensify and gray infrastructure ages, communities are rediscovering what wetlands do for free: slow and absorb stormwater, filter pollutants, and buffer the costs that otherwise land on cities and taxpayers.
As storms intensify and gray infrastructure ages, communities are rediscovering what wetlands do for free: slow and absorb stormwater, filter pollutants, and buffer the costs that otherwise land on cities and taxpayers.
August 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The cheapest flood control we have is already built it just needs protecting. 🌊
As storms intensify and gray infrastructure ages, communities are rediscovering what wetlands do for free: slow and absorb stormwater, filter pollutants, and buffer the costs that otherwise land on cities and taxpayers.
As storms intensify and gray infrastructure ages, communities are rediscovering what wetlands do for free: slow and absorb stormwater, filter pollutants, and buffer the costs that otherwise land on cities and taxpayers.
Want to know your watershed? Picture the nearest creek or stream to your home, then follow it downstream in your mind. All the land that drains into it is your watershed. You share it with everyone on the same creek.
Explore the Watersheds We Protect
Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.
watersheds.uniqueplacestosave.org
August 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Want to know your watershed? Picture the nearest creek or stream to your home, then follow it downstream in your mind. All the land that drains into it is your watershed. You share it with everyone on the same creek.
Conservation is permanent. Shouldn't the support behind it be? 🌊
Signing an easement is the beginning, not the end. The land still has to be monitored year after year, its terms upheld, and its protections defended if ever challenged. That work doesn't fund itself and it never stops.
Signing an easement is the beginning, not the end. The land still has to be monitored year after year, its terms upheld, and its protections defended if ever challenged. That work doesn't fund itself and it never stops.
August 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Conservation is permanent. Shouldn't the support behind it be? 🌊
Signing an easement is the beginning, not the end. The land still has to be monitored year after year, its terms upheld, and its protections defended if ever challenged. That work doesn't fund itself and it never stops.
Signing an easement is the beginning, not the end. The land still has to be monitored year after year, its terms upheld, and its protections defended if ever challenged. That work doesn't fund itself and it never stops.
1,218 acres of forested bottomland and wetlands in Liberty County, TX, protected forever. Batiste Creek safeguards the Pine Island Bayou watershed, one of the largest projects in our care.
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Batiste Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Discover how the Reaper conservation easement revitalizes streams and habitats in Randolph County, North Carolina, ensuring long-term environmental protection and restoration.
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August 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
1,218 acres of forested bottomland and wetlands in Liberty County, TX, protected forever. Batiste Creek safeguards the Pine Island Bayou watershed, one of the largest projects in our care.
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From the Field Friday 🌿 Circling back to Mudhoney II in Chatham County, NC with 31 acres permanently protected earlier this year.
August 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
From the Field Friday 🌿 Circling back to Mudhoney II in Chatham County, NC with 31 acres permanently protected earlier this year.
Wetland math: cheaper to keep than to rebuild. A drained wetland rarely comes back the same and replacing what it did (flood control, water filtering) costs communities far more than protecting it ever would. 🌊
August 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Wetland math: cheaper to keep than to rebuild. A drained wetland rarely comes back the same and replacing what it did (flood control, water filtering) costs communities far more than protecting it ever would. 🌊
Last month we permanently protected stream and wetland habitat at Camp Creek, North Carolina: restoring degraded channels, reconnecting them to floodplains, and rebuilding floodplain wetlands. A new way to help is coming soon.
August 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Last month we permanently protected stream and wetland habitat at Camp Creek, North Carolina: restoring degraded channels, reconnecting them to floodplains, and rebuilding floodplain wetlands. A new way to help is coming soon.