by Three Rivers Land Trust | Mar 3, 2016 | Articles
by Ruth Ann Grissom March 03, 2016 In North Carolina, we observe Arbor Day on the first Friday after March 15th. Got that? Can you do the math? Let alone remember to put it on your calendar? Besides being an unnecessarily complicated date, it’s perilously late in...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman February 24, 2016 When walking in the woods it’s always a pretty site to come upon a fern valley along a stream or creek. The moist conditions along a pristine stream or damp wetland area making for the right conditions for a sea of vivid green on...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 16, 2016 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman February 16, 2016 Though you wouldn’t know it from the freezing rain we had this week, spring is on its way. One signal of this is the emergence of spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer). Spring peepers are a small chorus frog found in the eastern...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 10, 2016 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman February 10, 2016 In a book called Feral by George Monbiot, he spends some time dealing with a species some consider a nuisance here in the United States – beavers. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain for their fur and for castoreum, a...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 4, 2016 | Articles
by Ruth Ann Grissom February 4, 2016 In neighborhoods like mine in Charlotte, squirrels are generally considered a nuisance. A dearth of predators and an abundance of acorns sustain an unnaturally large population. The scoundrels raid our birdfeeders and pilfer...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Dec 24, 2015 | Articles
by Crystal Cockman December 24, 2015 While walking around in the yard the other day enjoying this unseasonably warm weather, I couldn’t help but notice some places where soil was disturbed by a rodent, possibly a vole. Voles are a small rodent that look a lot...
