Fish Species Making a Return to the Upper French Broad

Photo by Luke Etchison By Torry Nergart, Conservation Easement Manager There have been well-meaning but misguided machinations for the French Broad River for centuries. Here...

How to Make Your Year-End Gift

A holiday season message from our Development Director, Jenn Tutor Bearwallow Mountain with frost. Photo by Leah Swann. Dear Friend, As we come to the...

Tools for Farmland Preservation in Transylvania County

By Torry Nergart, Conservation Easement Manager Take a look from the hawk’s eye view of new development in western North Carolina. Row after row of...

Happy Retirement to Lynn Killian!

We wish a happy retirement to our development director, Lynn Killian! Looking back, we celebrate how Lynn worked with all of you to create a stronger base of support for Conserving Carolina.

Look it! Look it! It’s Freakin’ Bats! We Love Halloween

By Lia Waldrum, AmeriCorps Habitat Restoration Associate Happy Halloween everyone! And in honor of spooky season and bat lovers everywhere, happy International Bat Week! Bats...

Seeing the Dangers of “Plant Blindness”

By Torry Nergart, Conserving Carolina’s Conservation Easement Manager A term has arisen from recent studies that explore the ever-widening schism of humans disconnected from their...

Piles of Stuff Make for Great Backyard Habitats!

Rockeries, Stumperies, Leaves, and Brush Piles Enhance Your Backyard Habitat From putting down the leaf blower to making piles of rocks, there are so many...

Wetlands Are Not Wastelands

By Torry Nergart, Conservation Easement Manager How we treat the least among us is a reflection of our true selves. The same is certainly true...

Armadillos in Western North Carolina?

Nine-banded Armadillo, photographed by Leppyone, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Sure enough! The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), a unique mammal native to Central and...

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