by Three Rivers Land Trust | Nov 14, 2016 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom November 14, 2016 My husband’s cousin lives on a farm abutting Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. (As my friend Sam says, everyone should have family so well placed.) Like the Uwharries, it’s a landscape of rolling topography punctuated with...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Nov 2, 2016 | Articles, News
by Crystal Cockman November 2, 2016 Our state has a great diversity of wildlife and habitats. There are various sources of funding associated with protecting game species like white-tailed deer and wild turkey and various sport fish, including the Wildlife Restoration...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Oct 27, 2016 | Articles, News
Dr. Peter Weigl of Wake Forest University gave a presentation at the Friends of Plant Conservation annual meeting at the N.C. Botanical Garden this past week on grassland balds. Grass balds are areas of naturally occurring treeless vegetation dominated by grasses,...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Oct 24, 2016 | Articles, News
by Katherine Schlosser and Charlie Williams. Credit also to the Friends of Plant Conservation. October 24, 2016 Northern Oconee bells, Shortia galacifolia var. brevistyla, is one of North Carolina’s rarest plants and has a history that makes it special to botanists...
by Three Rivers Land Trust | Oct 13, 2016 | Articles, News
by Ruth Ann Grissom October 13, 2016 Ever notice how the full moon always rises at sunset and sets at sunrise? This wondrous byproduct of planetary alignment gives us long nights of landscapes silvered by the sun’s reflected light. Even in my urban neighborhood, the...
