About BLC

Working with and for the people of Kentucky, our efforts are driven by our vision for the future:

A thriving community where land is protected to sustain our identity, economy, and quality of life.

WHAT WE DO

Ensuring Our Future

Since 1995, Bluegrass Land Conservancy has worked to protect land in Kentucky’s Bluegrass region through permanent conservation easements.

As a nationally accredited, community supported, 501(c)(3) nonprofit land trust, we work on a voluntary basis with landowners, community groups, and municipalities to encourage the preservation of land for agricultural viability, natural habitat, rural heritage, and scenic open space.  

We seek to ensure a future where the Bluegrass region’s distinctive soils, cultural heritage, scenic vistas, natural resources and habitats, and farms are preserved – forever. we aren’t just protecting land from development, we are conserving it for everyone – to achieve both economic and environmental goals; to promote harmony between people and places; to uphold quality of land and quality of life. 

Land Conservation
In the past 28 years, Bluegrass Land Conservancy has protected over 32,000 acres on nearly 160 properties in the Bluegrass.
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Organizational Sustainability
Ensuring our promise of perpetuity through sustainable and measurable management of our financial resources.
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Education & Outreach
Delivering the message of land conservation and elevating the importance of land as part of our regional identity.
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WHO WE ARE

Our Staff

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jessie Hancock

Counsel & Director of Conservation

Ashley Greathouse

director of land transactions

Nicole Armstrong

Conservation Project Manager

Rosalind Streeter

Director of Stewardship

Emmanuel Fields

Stewardship Coordinator

Kaylan Turner

Chief Development Officer

Laura Otter

Development & Events Manager

Molly Dunigan

Communications manager

Erin McGuire-Thompson

Policy Associate

Hannah Rivera

office manager
GIS Manager

Lee Bard

Our Board

Board Chair

Margaret Graves

VICE CHAIR

Helen Alexander

Secretary

Joel B. Turner

Treasurer

Michael Potapov

Hanzly Albina

Turney P. Berry

Brent Boland

Brutus Clay

Stephen J.B. Davis

Timothy Dunn

Luke Fallon

Peek Garlington III

Libby Jones

Paul Keith

Mary Lowry

Boyce Martin III

Richard Masson

Will Mayer

Steve Ragan

Emeritus Board

Nina Bonnie

Laura Lee Brown

Lendy Brown

Michael Burns

Laurel Catto

Robert Clay

Hoppy Henton

Betty Kenan

W. Austin Musselman, Jr.

Steve Wilson

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