25+ partner organizations working to name, celebrate, and conserve the forest that covers 80% of this district. By its own description an informal coalition, not a 501(c)(3).

This site’s community: the district’s shared information channel, anchored by the Facebook group where D1 talks to itself.

The stakes 40% of Nashville’s Highland Rim Forest — 50,168 of 127,000 acres — is in this district, and 80% of the district is forest. More than 90% of the forest is privately owned, which is why conservation funding, easements, and land acquisition are where this story is actually decided. (Alliance QGIS analysis, Sept 2025 […]

Why we watch If the State forces a smaller Metro Council, district boundaries and composition change materially. This site is built for that: it is organized around Bordeaux, Whites Creek, Joelton, Scottsboro, and Bells Bend — places that survive any redraw — and every district-dependent number lives in one data file that can be recomputed […]

Davidson County adopts the Jackson Law, giving local government approval power over proposed landfill construction.

Metro’s Solid Waste Region Board publishes A Brief History of Environmental Racism in Nashville, documenting how the northwest quadrant came to carry a concentrated share of the county’s waste and industrial burden — and rejects the Southern Services expansion the same year.

The Alliance’s resolution deck documents that 40% of Nashville’s Highland Rim Forest — 50,168 acres — lies within the district, and 80% of the district is forest. RS2025-1549 (the naming resolution) is filed; RS2025-1556 (Beaman +308 acres grant application) is adopted.