Smith Branch Longleaf Preserve

The LandTrust for Central North Carolina, with support from the Open Space Institute and the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, is pleased to announce the formal protection of the Smith Branch Longleaf Preserve through a conservation easement. This is a 104-acre,...

Flowe Property

Flowe Property Conserved in Cabarrus County “Despite his artistic pretentions, his sophistication, and many accomplishments, man owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Anonymous In North Carolina, agriculture and...

Densons Creek Trail

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...
Wood storks

Wood storks

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...

Crossroads of the Natural World

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...