Английская Википедия:Finding the Flint

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Finding the Flint (FTF) is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization and non-profit project created by American Rivers and The Conservation Fund, non-profit organizations who advocate for protecting rivers in the United States, and the Atlanta Regional Commission.[1][2][3]

Finding the Flint focuses on the cultural, physical, and environmental restoration of the Flint River, focusing on its headwaters in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and streams or creeks affected by the environment.[3][4][5][6]

Finding the Flint also aims to raise awareness about the existence of the Flint River, which is obscured by urban expansion that has occurred around the metropolitan area of Atlanta.[7]

History

In 2017, American Rivers, The Conservation Fund, and the Atlanta Regional Commission hired Ryan Gravel's firm Sixpitch to bring several ideas together in an aerotropolis-wide vision for the Flint River headwaters, focusing on the restoration of the Flint. With the support of Southside native and author Hannah Palmer, the Finding the Flint was born.[1][2][3]

The Finding the Flint project is supported by Delta Air Lines and the metro Atlanta cities of East Point, College Park, and Hapeville.[8]

In 2021, MARTA planned to offer 7-acres of territory near the Flint's headwaters in College Park to Finding the Flint, for $218,000, to create the city's first nature preserve. MARTA's Board of Directors Planning and Capital Programs Committee voted on April 29, 2021, to sell the 7-acres of wetland.[9]

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