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Bird-Friendly Yard Checklist: Are You Ready for Spring?

Whether your yard is big or small, you can make it a great habitat for birds. Here’s your checklist for a bird-friendly yard.

A Wild Space for Our Young Family

Grass is not the enemy, but at my house, it wasn’t doing anybody any favors. My name is Pat Barcas, I’ll be serving with Americorps...

Holes in Your Leaves? No Problem!

A ragweed plant is peppered with tiny holes, most likely from a grasshopper. Growing up, I associated the presence of holes in plants to be...

Discovering Our Native Butterflies!

Take a tour of a NC milkweed farm to see beautiful native butterflies and caterpillars. Learn how to spot monarchs and spicebush and pipevine swallowtails.

How to Create a Pocket Meadow

We spoke to local plant ecologist, Lisa Wagner, to learn more about this sustainable approach to gardening for wildlife. Overlooking a meadow in Cherokee National...

5 Tips to Create Habitat in a Small Space

Purple Coneflower by Katie Steiger-Meister/USFWS Spring has finally arrived and it’s the perfect time to add or improve wildlife habitat, especially in small spaces. Have...

Native Plant Paradise at the Conserving Carolina Office

Spring is gorgeous at our office in East Flat Rock. It’s just a small lot in an office park but our land protection director, Tom Fanslow, has turned it into a thriving native plant paradise.

Bradford Pears: Pretty But Invasive!

Want beautiful white-flowering trees? Plant these native species instead of Bradford pear. One of the best parts about spring is admiring all of the new...

Fire in WNC: Risks and Benefits

2016 Party Rock Fire by the Town of Lake Lure For thousands of years, much of North Carolina burned every 1 to 10 years either...