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Trust for Public Land buys 20-acre tract along Soque River
Forest Service may add land on Chattahoochee tributary to national forest
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The Trust for Public Land recently purchased a 20-acre tract along the Soque River, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River in Habersham County, with the intent of adding it to the Chattahoochee National Forest, according to a news release from the trust. The property is bounded on two sides by the national forest adjacent to the Tray Mountain Wilderness Area, a rugged 9,700-acre landscape named after the dominant Tray Mountain peak, the release said. The National Forest Service worked with the trust, a national conservation organization, to look into purchasing the property from Rabun County Bank, following a foreclosure.