Adopt An Acre
Support our conservation efforts by sponsoring your favorite piece of the Preserve.
With a gift of $100, you can adopt an acre of Conestee — helping restore trails, protect wildlife, and keep nature wild for everyone. Choose whether you'd like to adopt an acre of meadow, forest or wetland. Once you've adopted an acre, you'll receive a digital certificate. Your name will also be listed on our interact map!
Meadows
Buzzing with bees and bursting with color, the Preserve's grasslands serve as beautiful backdrops for picnics, photoshoots, and poetry readings. Native grasses and wildflowers provide habitat to a broad range of pollinators and birds. These unique ecosystems are rare in the Southeast. Maintaining meadows requires constant care – periodic disturbance, weeding out encroaching invasive trees, seeding wildflowers. Your support will help us enhance and expand meadow habitat.
Forests
Rugged pine stands. Lush lowland forests. Rolling hills shaded by soaring oaks, hickories, and tulip trees, crisscrossed by miles of meandering trails. The Preserve boasts a variety of forest ecosystems. There are threats to each – storms, destructive insects, invasive plants. Your support will help us protect and replenish Conestee's leafy green canopy, which keeps your hikes and mountain bike rides cool and comfortable.
Wetlands
Engineered by bustling beavers, the Preserve's interlocking wetlands are where Great Blue Herons hunt, spotted salamanders lay eggs, and migrating birds find safe refuge. They're also a living, breathing sponge that absorbs excess floodwaters channeled by the Reedy River. The Reedy brings more than just high water – every year, trash needs to be removed from the Preserve's wetlands. Your support helps us combat litter and augment wetland habitat with nesting boxes for ducks and prothonotary warblers.
Find your acre!
Use our interactive map to find the acre you adopted. Zoom in and hover over the grid with your cursor to locate your name.
The map will be updated by Friday, Dec. 5 to reflect acres that have been adopted.
Search your name!
This symbolic adoption of an acre at Conestee Nature Preserve applies for a 1 year period of time. All acres will be available for adoption again on Giving Tuesday 2026!