by Three Rivers Land Trust | Mar 15, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman March 15, 2017 The past couple of weekends, I’ve hiked two loop trails, which means they follow a circle and so you don’t have to do any backtracking. One of these trails is in the Birkhead Wilderness Area, and the other is in the Badin Recreational...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Mar 9, 2017 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom March 9, 2017 A band of light rain passed through the Uwharries on a recent Saturday evening. By Sunday morning, the sky was crystalline blue. Despite a lively northwest breeze, the temperature was unseasonably mild. I was out with the dogs,...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 23, 2017 | Articles, News
The Land Trust for Central NC is excited to announce the dates for our fifth annual Uwharrie Trail Thru Hike backpacking trip, which will take place on October 12 – 15, 2017! Have you heard of the Uwharrie Trail? At 40 miles, it is the longest single-track footpath in...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 14, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman February 13, 2017 A few weeks ago I hiked along the Densons Creek Trail starting at the U.S. Forest Service Ranger station near Troy. You start out on the short loop and jump on the Densons Creek Trail not far in, following white blazes. You pass...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 7, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman February 6, 2017 While at the Pee Dee Wildlife Refuge in Anson County a few years ago, during a meeting of the Greater Uwharrie Conservation Partnership, we spotted an interesting species, thought to be out of its natural range – the wood stork...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom February 2, 2017 In a speech commemorating the bicentennial of Andre Michaux’s summit of Grandfather Mountain in 1794, Charles Kuralt claimed the famed French botanist “knew that within his sight…exists a greater variety of plant life than can be...
