by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles, News
By Ruth Ann Grissom February 7, 2018 In the days before the Uwharries’ first snowfall in early December, J.D. Bricken, manager of the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, received a call from a neighbor concerned about an owl hanging out on the ground around his chicken...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jan 31, 2018 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman January 31, 2018 I remember hearing as a child that you were not supposed to stare at a praying mantis because he can make you go blind. Maybe this was just supposed to keep me from picking it up and scaring my sister with it. This belief may come...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jan 24, 2018 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 1/24/2018 A few years back, I went to a program celebrating 50 years of the Land and Water Conservation Fund with then Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Senator Richard Burr at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville. I’ve...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jan 17, 2018 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 1/17/2018 On a cool January day a few years ago, I found myself with a friend on a boardwalk walking through a serene forested wetland, with a cool breeze blowing across the water and through the trees. I spotted a red-headed woodpecker searching...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jan 11, 2018 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom January 11, 2018 In December, as I packed for a trip to Big Bend National Park, I ran across a quote attributed to Edward Abbey. The desert will scour your soul. His words evoke the grit of the desert, but they also embody the promise of emerging...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jan 3, 2018 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman January 3, 2018 Growing up, around Thanksgiving each year we would break out an old-timey sausage grinder, one of those with the hand crank, and make cranberry salad. We’d gingerly assemble the pieces of the machinery together, as we had to remember...
