The Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy is a 501c3 nonprofit organization established to maintain 110 miles of the Bartram Trail in Georgia and North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy is a 501c3 nonprofit organization consisting of volunteers and trail enthusiasts who maintain 112+ miles of the Bartram National Recreational Trail between Georgia and North Carolina. - To recognize and honor the Philadelphia-born naturalist, William Bartram, who traveled through the southeast between the years 1773 and 1777, writing exact and vivid descriptions of the plants and animals he saw and the native tribes he encountered, and who published these writings in 1791 as Travels of William Bartram. - To establish and maintain a 110 mile memorial trail, following a route as close as possible to Bartram’s original route through northeast Georgia and western North Carolina. - To promote further inquiry and knowledge about the plants and animals of the southern Appalachians, as well as the traditions and culture of the native Cherokee people, which Bartram encountered on his travels here in 1775.