by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jun 24, 2015 | Articles
by Ruth Ann Grissom June 24, 2015 In 1995, the year the Landtrust for Central North Carolina was founded, our state’s population was 7.35 million. Remember those days? Back when we bought CDs by Coolie and Joe Diffie (really?) and drove to video stores to rent...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jun 18, 2015 | Articles
by Lucas Crim, LandTrust intern summer 2015 June 18, 2015 Once covering 90 million acres of the southern colonies, including much of North Carolina’s coastal plain and the southern Piedmont region, longleaf pine forests were a dominating feature of the 18th-century...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Jun 4, 2015 | Articles
by Greg Cooper, LandTrust intern summer 2015 June 4, 2015 Two long prized pine species have faced a drastic decline as a result past exploitation, a history of fire suppression, and a widespread transition to loblolly pine plantation: the longleaf and shortleaf pine....
by Three Rivers Land Trust | May 20, 2015 | Articles
by Philippa Tanford, LandTrust intern summer 2015 May 20, 2015 Have you heard what sounds like a rusty bicycle making its way through the forest recently? That “squeaky wheel” is the signature sound of the Black-and-white Warbler, Mniotilta varia, a migrating songbird...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | May 7, 2015 | Articles
by Alicia Vasto, LandTrust AmeriCorps member May 7, 2015 Perhaps you have heard of AmeriCorps before, and likely its more familiar cousin, the Peace Corps. Maybe you know someone— a niece, nephew, friend, or friend of a friend—that was an AmeriCorps member at one...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Apr 30, 2015 | Articles
By: Crystal Cockman Steve Hall, invertebrate zoologist, recently conducted a landscape survey in the Uwharries, with a main focus on insects. This was part of a joint effort by the NC Natural Heritage Program and the NC Wildlife Resources Commission in 2010 and 2011....
