by sahcadmin | Jul 26, 2011 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Long Branch Environmental Education Center (Long Branch) is an educational non-profit organization located eighteen miles northwest of Asheville on the Buncombe and Haywood county line. It was founded in 1974 as an ecological sanctuary. Since then, it has evolved...
by sahcadmin | Jun 28, 2011 | Highlands of Roan, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy recently added 199 more acres of protected land within the Yellow Mountain State Natural Area planning boundary through a land purchase. Located along the North Carolina/Tennessee state line, the Highlands of Roan project...
by sahcadmin | May 9, 2011 | Balsam Mountains, Farmland Conservation, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Rural preservation leaders in the Bethel community of Haywood County have announced the permanent protection land along Garden Creek. The property features 13 acres of largely agricultural land, which provides corn, hay, and the critical calving unit for a larger...
by sahcadmin | Apr 6, 2011 | Appalachian Trail Countryside, Farmland Conservation, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
The Gott’s 218-acre farm in Madison County is an icon of responsible land management and sustainability. Peter and Polly take seriously their responsibility of stewarding the land. Being able to hand their property down to their children intact is one of their highest...
by sahcadmin | Feb 25, 2011 | Farmland Conservation, Hikes, Land Protection and Landowner Stories, Smoky Mountains
In the 1990’s, 67-year-old Maggie Valley resident Tom Alexander realized that he would have to do something to be able to hand down his beloved land, 1,000 mostly undeveloped acres adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, intact to his children. The...
by sahcadmin | Feb 4, 2011 | Land Protection and Landowner Stories, Stewardship Stories
The Virginia big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii) is an endangered bat that only lives in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Virginia big-eared bats prefer caves in karst regions (areas underlain with limestone bedrock and many caves and sinkholes)...
