MISSION: We are on a mission to conserve Nashville’s Highland Rim Forest creating linkage between Radnor, Warner Parks, West Meade, Bell’s Bend, Beaman, and White’s Creek. Connecting these parks is essential to protect our land, air, waters, wildlife, scenery, and our children’s future.

Did you know? The Highland Rim rises to more than a thousand feet in elevation and high forests arc around Nashville to the West. See it for yourself.  Feel the breeze created by trees. Breathe the cooler, cleaner air.   Stand in awe beneath 300-year old trees in a forest that has never been logged.  Ephemeral wildflowers bloom in spring, carpeting the forest floor of ferns and mosses.  Rare birds feed on these protein rich soils.  Owls, eagles, bats, beavers, turtles, deer, and rare life still live in our city, in this Highland Rim Forest.  Life is rich and abundant because – for now – this forest is still mostly intact.  Nashvillians need and want these environmental contributions for our air, water, wildlife, and scenery.

CURRENT SITUATION: Exploding population growth, land speculation and development, and aging land ownership are fragmenting our centuries-old forests into smaller parcels.  New homes, asphalt drives and the resulting sterile lawns threaten our forests’ contribution to our healthy environment.  Without these productive forests, we face higher summertime temperatures, polluted streams, degraded scenery, and even compromise the very air we breathe. Trees provide essential ecosystem services to cleaning our air and reducing the risk of air quality related illnesses.

Once developed and divided, larger tracts will be lost for conservation and this this land will be diminished along with the ecosystems it supports.  But we can preserve this forest land and the benefits to our city.

NashvilleNext, our City’s General Plan, and our Parks Department's “Plan to Play” set out bold agendas to “champion the environment” and their maps delineate this Forest corridor, important for our air, land, water, and wildlife.  NashvilleNext’s strategy is our strategy:  “Increase funding and expand purchase of sensitive lands and open space.” Yet nothing was included in the 2024 budget for this corridor, outlined in NashvilleNext, our city’s General Plan.

ACTION: Our Alliance will harness citizen support to good public planning by matching private interest to public incentives and funding. 

Please add your name to this petition to show your support of conservation of Nashville's Highland Rim Forest.