When Alexla was growing up, she wasn’t able to get outside much. In Summer of Service, she fell in love with the land. Now, as a Conserving Carolina intern, she’s helping make the great outdoors more accessible to all.
In Conserving Carolina’s 2021 Habitat at Home Photo Contest, you can share your projects to improve wildlife habitat and the wild things that you see at your place.
It’s a new year. Are you ready to see some new places? Geared to all ages and abilities, the Flying Squirrel Outdoor Challenge will take you to your choice of 8 places that Conserving Carolina helped protect.
Earl B. Hunter, Jr. of Black Folks Camp Too says that when people can connect around the our love for the outdoors, “We begin to have this harmony, where people can talk around the campfire.” You’re invited to join one of those campfire conversations in this video premiere!
The families that integrated Brevard schools “wanted the children to know that they were somebody.” The African-American Storyline project keeps their stories alive.
See the monarch sanctuaries in Mexico through the eyes of a young woman returning to the land where she was born.
Alexla Perez-Sanchez used to feel that she didn’t have a place in the outdoors, having immigrated to WNC from Mexico as a young child. After her experience in Summer of Service, that’s changed. 100%.
Educator and farmer Kim Bailey grows plants for butterfly gardens. The first time she saw a monarch’s metamorphosis, she says, “Apparently, it changed me, because I got totally hooked on it!