by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 21, 2018 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman February 21, 2018 The LandTrust for Central NC hosted a hike at the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge on January 26. Greg Walmsley, Assistant Refuge Manager led us on a hike down to the Griffin Lowlands, an area that is closed off to the general...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Feb 14, 2018 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman February 14, 2018 The day that I’m writing this article is my 36th birthday. January is a time for reflection anyway at the start of a new year, but especially for me as I think about my life up to this point. The fondest of memories I have are...
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...
