Walnut Creek Preserve Speaker Series: A Lasting Legacy – How Conservation Burial Protects Nature
Date: October 17, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Anne Elizabeth Suratt Nature Center at Walnut Creek Preserve
Speaker: Karly Michel, Operations Director at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary
Carolina Memorial Sanctuary is an 11-acre conservation burial ground in Mills River, NC. In addition to adhering to green burial practices, conservation burial has the added benefit of protecting and renewing the land. The ecology of the land is tended to, which benefits plants, insects, birds, and other animals living on the land. The result is a beautiful park that is protected in perpetuity.
Karly Michel is the Operations Director at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary (CMS), a conservation burial ground in Mills River, NC. CMS is a place for natural burials of humans and their beloved pets, or cremated and aquamated remains. Karly loves facilitating candid and open conversations about death and works to provide as many resources to those preparing for their own death.
RSVP is requested below, but not necessary to attend the event! Please join us!
The Walnut Creek Preserve Speaker Series programs are made possible thanks to our partnership with the Preserve.
*Walnut Creek Preserve is private property and guests are only allowed on the property by invitation (a planned event or scheduled group). Thank you.
Contact Pam Torlina, pam@conservingcarolina.org, with questions or for more information.
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We're looking forward to seeing you on October 17th!
If for some reason you are unable to make it on the day of the program, please either revisit our calendar event and update your RSPV or email pam@conservingcarolina.org so your spot can be opened up to someone else.
Thank you!
See you soon!
