Knox County Tennesee

Frederick Law Olmsted designed this country’s most beautiful and long lasting park systems, including Boston’s “Emerald Necklace,” in 1894. His approach to protecting and enhancing the natural beauty and function of landscape was a prototype of what is now called “natural resource based planning.” A Conservation Corridor on the French Broad River would provide the basis for a similar system of parks, natural areas, farms, trails and water recreation that would be like a “Sapphire Necklace.”