by Three Rivers Land Trust | May 17, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 5/17/2017 This week I had the awesome opportunity to go out in the field with a friend of mine who is a red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) biologist in the North Carolina Sandhills, Kerry Brust. I went with her to put brightly colored and aluminum bands...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | May 12, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 5/12/2017 I’ve spent some time walking around in the woods this spring, and I’m always excited by what I find. When evaluating a property The LandTrust for Central North Carolina is considering for protection the other day, we found a patch of pink...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | May 5, 2017 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom May 5, 2017 T.S. Eliot claimed April is the cruelest month, but for gardeners, I’d argue it’s the busiest. In the Piedmont, it’s our last chance to plant trees and shrubs until fall. The soil is warm enough to sow cucumbers, peppers, green beans...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Apr 24, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman April 24, 2017 Snails are members of the phylum Mollusca and are in the taxonomic class Gastropoda. Slugs are also included in this class. There are 40,000 snail species, which is the largest group of living mollusks. Gastropods have a muscular foot...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Apr 19, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman 4/19/2017 Yelps, purrs, cackles, clucks, gobbles – all sounds a turkey makes. The gobble is the sound all turkey hunters want to hear in the woods. It is the call that is meant to attract females and deter competing males. There are various types of...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Apr 10, 2017 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman April 10, 2017 You may have been out wandering along a streamside in the Uwharries and noticed a strange occurrence – yucca plants along a hillside or bluff – and assumed they were escaped from someone’s yard. In actuality, they are native and...
