Spring Photo Contest Celebrates Habitat at Home

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.

Introducing the Flying Squirrel Outdoor Challenge!

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.

Join A Conversation with Black Folks Camp Too Founder, Earl B. Hunter, Jr.

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!

They Wanted the Children to Know

The families that integrated Brevard schools “wanted the children to know that they were somebody.” The African-American Storyline project keeps their stories alive.

2020 Ruth Jones Scholarship Winners

PRESS RELEASE: May 27, 2020 Conserving Carolina is excited to announce the winners of the annual Ruth Jones Scholarship! Two Transylvania County high school students...

Alexla and the Butterflies

See the monarch sanctuaries in Mexico through the eyes of a young woman returning to the land where she was born.

Video: Alexla’s Story

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%.

If You Plant It, They Will Come

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!

Youth Interpretive Hike: DuPont State Forest

Join Conserving Carolina and the Carolina Mountain Club for a Youth Hike! Hike with us to Triple Falls, High Falls, and Hooker Falls as we interpret the land. Learn about the history of DuPont State Recreational Forest and the importance of public lands.