by Three Rivers Land Trust | Aug 23, 2017 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom August 23, 2017 On a Friday morning in late July, Jan Pender left her home in Raleigh and headed toward the Uwharrie National Forest. (I use the term “morning” loosely – it was 3:30am.) Pender, director of the NC Youth Conservation Corps (NCYCC),...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Aug 17, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 8/17/2017 I recently made a trip to a friend’s property in Montgomery County looking to find an orchid he had spotted a few years ago. We thought the orchid might be a yellow fringeless orchid, which I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing yet in the...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Aug 9, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 8/9/2017 On a trip to Washington, DC a few years ago, there was an area of the museum featuring the winners of a photography contest – Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards. There were many fantastic pictures including a...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Aug 2, 2017 | Articles, News
by Taylor Minich August 2, 2017 Towards the end of The Iliad, Homer’s classic epic – a pillar upon which Greek tragedy rests – the protagonist, Achilles, is presented with a dilemma. His is not a problem specific to himself or even the ancient world in which his story...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jul 26, 2017 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom 7/26/2017 Since early May, a distinctive eastern towhee has frequented my backyard in Charlotte. The typical song of this common species can be translated as “Drink your teeea!” This empathic burst of notes ends with a trill. Sometimes the song is...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jul 20, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman July 20, 2017 A friend of mine sent me a picture of the beautiful river birch she has on her property near Troy a while back. Another friend is proud of her sycamore tree in her front yard, which sold her on the house where she lives currently. This...
